Sam Clark

Dr Sam Clark is Consultant in Critical Care at Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has a sub-specialty interest in Palliative Care, working regular sessions with the Specialist Palliative Care Team in his organisation. He has led the writing of guidelines with the Intensive Care Society (ICS), including for ‘the transfer of critically ill adults to an outdoor space during end of life care’, and is currently working with multiple organisations to publish guidance for the transfer of critical care patients to their preferred place of death for end-of-life care. Sam is also a Co-chair for the ‘End of life and Palliative Care in Intensive care research Network (EPCIN)’, which serves as an international professional community where the two fields meet.

Alongside these roles, Sam is enthusiastic about the contributions of Critical Care teams towards goals for environmental sustainability. He leads the PPE workstream for the ICS’ Environment and Sustainability Working Group, most notably campaigning locally, regionally, and nationally to reduce inappropriate non-sterile glove use, in collaboration with other organisations including the British Association for Critical Care Nurses (BACCN), and the Infection Prevention Society (IPS). Sam is the co-lead for a recently launched regional sustainability network across Cheshire and Mersey Critical Care Teams (SPIN-CM), and is a contributing author to the new Environmental Sustainability section of the upcoming GPICS Version 3 guidelines. He is also contributing to a collaboration between the ICS and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) to produce an update to the ‘Sustainability Toolkit’.