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Charging for non-EEA migrants’ access to the NHS—who will be charged next?
by Johanna Hanefeld and Richard SmithThe UK government has recently announced that it will in future charge migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and foreign visitors a 150% […]
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Dr Mads Gilbert: an Open Letter to President Obama on Hospital Conditions inside Gaza
Dearest Friends, The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying… All sorts of injured Palestinians, all […]
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Guppi Bola on How Medact is going to help get the UK Eating Better
Earlier this week, Medact joined the likes of Friends of the Earth, Food Ethics Council, Oxfam and the Soil Association as supporting members of the Eating Better Network. Guppi Bola, Medact’s Climate and Ecology Coordinator explains our plans and how they fit nicely into the fair, green, healthy food scene.
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Paul Sims on Beds not Bombs: histories of the medical anti-war movement
To launch the Medact archive on 27 June 2014, Wellcome Library played host to a conference on the history of medical activism: ‘Beds not Bombs: Exploring the archives of anti-nuclear […]
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Elena Carter on ‘Beds not Bombs’
As East and West squared off at the height of the Cold War, the threat of a nuclear attack was all too real. Armed with stark facts about the potential […]
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Divestment, Just What The Doctor Ordered
Much has been said about the outcomes of the BMA’s Annual Representatives’ Meeting (ARM) this week. Of the debates held and motions passed, however, perhaps only Tim Crocker-Buqué’s tobacco motion […]
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Tax abuse is a public heath risk – it’s time to pay up Boots!
Donning scrubs, white lab coats and picket signs, doctors and healthcare professionals rallied with anti-poverty activists today outside of Boots the Chemists’ flagship store to publicise how tax avoidance is […]
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Ruth Stern: Medact at the 2nd UK People’s Health Assembly held in Scotland, April 2014.
From the moment people starting registering there was a buzz – people reconnecting with friends and colleagues from way back, Scottish delegates chatting to those who ventured north from England, […]
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Why the Ukraine crisis means we should get rid of our nuclear deterrent.
Russian forces are in eastern Ukraine and there are calls from the West for ‘tough action’. Could the US and Russia do the unthinkable and go to nuclear war? This […]
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The People’s Health Assembly and the War Without Bullets
From behind owls-eye spectacles, Cathy McCormack’s diminutive frame breathlessly declaims: “ We are fighting a war without bullets”. In many ways this feisty wee woman – who from her days […]
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Rebecca Sharkey on Medact’s trip to Faslane and Holyrood
I’ve been campaigning for a year and a half as part of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and I know perhaps more than I’d like to about […]