Our work
Health injustice is driven by political, social and economic conditions. Our campaigns organise for systems change to win justice.
Donate
By donating, you will support all of our member-led campaigns by helping to fund the training, events and resources we need to build health-worker power.
Upcoming events
Our members
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Monica Sharman
“Through Medact I am developing a deeper understanding of health injustice, and learning the skills to challenge it. It’s been incredible to do this work alongside such a compassionate team of people who inspire me to believe that a fairer world is possible.”
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Rebekah Cheung Judge
“Being a Medact member gives us the opportunity to join together as a community of healthcare practitioners to affect the sociopolitical determinants of health which we see play out every day in the lives of our patients.”
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Calum Barnes
“As a doctor, being a Medact member is a way of advocating for my patients. Being part of a movement toward social justice has given me purpose and identity in a time where it is otherwise only too easy to feel helpless.”
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Michael Orgel
“I’ve been a member of Medact and its predecessor MCANW for decades, trying to counter the existential risk of nuclear weapons. We need to eliminate them before they eliminate us – and the funds saved could help ensure healthcare is a right not a privilege.”
Become a Medact member now
Join a community of health workers fighting for health justice today. Together we have the power to change the system.
Medact membership is open to anyone who works in health and shares our values.
Latest news
- “Peabody Asthma”: Scenes from the Nags Head Estate report launch
- Nags Head Estate: Tenants’ Experiences of Unhealthy Homes
- Open letter: End the financing of nuclear weapons!
- The Spring Statement is a Public Health Failure
- Don’t Bank on the Bomb! UK: Campaign Toolkit
- New Medact research shows frontline health impacts of fuel and housing crises
Take action!
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Open letter: End the financing of nuclear weapons!
For the health of people and the planet, the elimination of nuclear weapons and prevention of their use is an urgent priority. Take action! Sign the open letter!
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Write to your MP today demanding a strong Renters’ Rights Bill!
Ensure election candidates are keeping high quality, insulated housing and proportionate responses to the climate crisis at the top of their agenda.
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Open letter: Make social homes a national public health priority!
Sign this open letter to the UK Minister of State for Housing to demand social homes for public health!
Our work
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Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, indiscriminate, and inhumane instruments of mass murder ever created. Their use – and even their possession – goes against every principle of international humanitarian law.
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Health Workers for Palestine
Medact has long stood for the rights of the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation, as we stand with all peoples seeking freedom from violent oppression. Throughout the escalation […]
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Homes for Health
We’re bringing together a movement of health workers united in a shared vision to reclaim our homes for people and the planet
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Economic Justice
Our economic system is making people sick. Gross inequality leads to unequal health outcomes. But this is not inevitable: we have the power to change the system. Today in the […]
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Securitisation of Health
We call for collective security, health and well-being, rather than ‘hard’ security measures like border enforcement, a punitive criminal justice system, and counter-terror measures that criminalise entire communities.
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Get involved with the #PatientsNotPassports campaign!
Patients Not Passports are organising to end to racist migrant charging policies within the NHS. Get involved with the campaign!