rachel clarke moved from her work in hospices to hospital wards to get closer to those in fact it.nths and the majority of patients that i've been seeing in the hospital where i work had been very frail, overwhelmed, very quickly, by the illness. sometimes they are so short of breath, they are struggling hard to breathe. they can barely talk at all and we almost have to communicate using gestures, so they nod and shake their heads to communicate with me. and it's a real challenge wearing our ppe, our personal protective equipped mint, to communicate with the kind of care and compassion that you'd normally like to because you have literal physical barriers between you and your patients. but we all try our utmost to convey that care and convey that every single patient matters. it's a bit of a unique situation, isn't it, because if you're dying and you can't touch anyone and you can't properly see anybody around you, that is really brutal? absolutely, and i think that's one of the great cruelties of this disease, the fact the infection control measures not only put up these physical

rachel clarke, a doctor who dedicates her working life to the dying. i'm philippa thomas.ur stories. hello. thursday brought us, for the third consecutive day, the hottest day of the year so far in the uk. temperatures at heathrow in london reached 33.4 celsius, but if you are not a fan of the heat and the humidity, you will probably be pleased to hear that things are now turning fresher. through friday, it will be a cooler day, the chance of some heavy showers and some thunderstorms around too. still quite a mild, muggy start to the morning. first thing friday, those temperatures quite widely in the mid to high teens, could be not shy of 20 degrees for central london first thing friday morning. now, we start with this band of fairly heavy showers and thunderstorms. this is nine o'clock in the morning. it will be drier down towards the southwest of england and wales. the southeast of england, through the midlands, up towards north and northwest of england into northern ireland as well, that's where we are likely to see some of those heavy downpours. and for the western isl

rachel clark, a doctor who dedicates her working life to the dying. i'm phillipa thomas.dnesday was officially the hottest day of 2020 so far — 32.6 celsius at london heathrow airport. ithink, though, today may top that further. we're likely to see 33, again, i think somewhere towards the west of london or on into parts of the midlands. make no mistake, it will be hot and humid day across the board. we're pulling our air in across western europe, originally from northern africa, and you can see the amber makes it all the way to the north of the uk for thursday. so, areas that have lagged behind a little with the temperatures, scotland and northern ireland, will move into the warmer air through the day. notice some thunderstorms there towards the north—west — we'll see more of those a little later — but generally, not much happens on that chart through thursday. that's because basically it's a day of blue skies and sunshine, and up go those temperatures. 30 degrees possible in central scotland, mid—20s for northern ireland, and as i said, possibly 33 somewhere further sout