Clare Healy

Clare Healy (also Clare Francesca Jacobs) is a New Zealand general practitioner, and has been described as New Zealand's foremost GP expert on medical care after sexual assault. In 2022 Healy was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to medical forensic education.

Career Healy is a general practitioner in Christchurch, and director of the Cambridge Clinic, which provides services to victims of abuse. Healy works for and with people affected by sexual assault, abuse, family violence and non-fatal strangulation. Healy has delivered medical forensic training programmes, lectured in the New Zealand Police course for sexual assault investigators, and been an independent expert in hundreds of courts cases. She also led the development of a non-fatal strangulation education programme through MEDSAC.

Healy was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners in 2021. The College described her as New Zealand's foremost GP expert on medical care after sexual assault.

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