Rachel Clarke is a British physician specialising in palliative care for the National Health Service, author, journalist and activist. Formerly a current affairs journalist, Clarke retrained to work as a doctor in 2009. From 2015 she had an active voice in the dispute in the United Kingdom between junior doctors and the government over their contractual conditions of work, appearing in multiple television debates and interviews. Her book about life as a junior doctor was published in 2017.