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Senior medics call on government to immediately ban the routine use of antibiotics in UK farming
In an unprecedented move, fifteen senior medics have written to the UK government calling for urgent action to tackle the routine misuse of antibiotics in UK farming…
World Medical Association Calls on Health Sector to Divest – Will you ask your Royal College?
On 22nd October the World Medical Association passed a resolution calling on their members and health organisations worldwide to divest from fossil fuels, and reinvest in organisations upholding environmental principles. This week in Marrakech government...A call on St George’s Hospital Trust to respect migrants’ rights to care
Within the UK, over the past decade or more, we have witnessed a movement toward increasingly restrictive policy around entitlement to healthcare for those without a defined immigration status. This population are arguably one of the most vulnerable groups...Medics call for an end to arms sales to Saudi
UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia have been directly involved in the destruction of Yemen’s health system and the targeting of hospitals and other health facilities in Yemen. On Wednesday 21 September, the Medact Arms and Militarisation group handed in the following...Global Health Professionals Call for Transition Away from Coal
Medact has joined with more than 80 global health organizations from 30 different countries – together representing more than 300,000 doctors, nurses and public health professionals…
Stop Trident
To coincide with the #StopTrident march on Saturday 27th February 2016, leading UK health professionals wrote a letter in The Telegraph calling on the UK government to back international efforts to establish a treaty banning nuclear weapons, and to halt the renewal of...Open letter to Shell's Ben van Beurden from John Ashton
John Ashton is an independent commentator and co-founder of the think tank E3G. He served from 2006-12 as Special Representative for Climate Change for three successive Foreign Secretaries. He spoke on the panel at the launch of our new Report on Health and Fracking:...Open Letter: for the people in Gaza
Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect health and lives. We are also informed people; we teach the ethics of our...Letter to Ms Lin Homer, Chief Executive HM Revenue & Customs on Tax Avoidance
Tax abuse is wrong. And Medact believes it should be considered a national public health problem. But the rules of the international banking, trade and finance systems are rigged to allow corporations to get away with illegitimate and unacceptable tax avoidance. Help...Upcoming Events
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