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  • We’ve Just Released Home, Sick Home — And What We Found Is Alarming

    May 11, 2025
    We’ve Just Released Home, Sick Home — And What We Found Is Alarming

    Seven in ten health workers regularly see patients going without energy in their homes because they are unable to afford bills. – Homes for Health


  • Resisting the far right means fighting for health and justice

    May 2, 2025
    Resisting the far right means fighting for health and justice

    Don’t mourn ground lost to the far right – join the resistance!


  • “Peabody Asthma”: Scenes from the Nags Head Estate report launch

    April 17, 2025
    “Peabody Asthma”: Scenes from the Nags Head Estate report launch

    “We’re not living… I can’t call it living, we’re just managing…”


  • The Spring Statement is a Public Health Failure

    April 7, 2025
    The Spring Statement is a Public Health Failure

    On the 26th of March 2025, the Chancellor announced the spring statement. It delivered a bleak message: the government is choosing to cut vital support for disabled people and public […]


  • New Medact research shows frontline health impacts of fuel and housing crises

    March 4, 2025
    New Medact research shows frontline health impacts of fuel and housing crises

    7/10 health workers regularly see patients forced to go without energy


  • Bristol’s Barton House residents and Medact Bristol hold council to account

    March 4, 2025
    Bristol’s Barton House residents and Medact Bristol hold council to account

    Barton House residents have been fighting for justice for over a year after what our members in Medact Bristol have called “a mass-traumatising event”.


  • Ceasefire: Our solidarity remains essential

    January 22, 2025
    Ceasefire: Our solidarity remains essential

    After 15 months of Israel’s genocidal military campaign, a precarious but momentous and welcome ceasefire has finally arrived. Our continued solidarity remains essential and urgent!


  • Trump & reproductive health services in Britain

    December 12, 2024
    Trump & reproductive health services in Britain

    Manna Mostaghim – Reproductive Justice Initiative The links in this story provide further information and context. For the sake of brevity and coherence, I use England as the sole case […]


  • IPPNW Action at COP29 for Disarmament, Climate Justice and Health

    December 9, 2024
    IPPNW Action at COP29 for Disarmament, Climate Justice and Health

    For the 29th UN climate conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and Medact sent official delegations to highlight human and environmental health. […]


  • What might a second Trump administration mean for health justice?

    November 28, 2024
    What might a second Trump administration mean for health justice?

    In early November, American voters chose to re-elect Republican party candidate Donald Trump for a second term. We know this election result is a gut punch, regardless of how likely […]


  • The 2025 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize

    November 26, 2024
    The 2025 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize

    Submissions for the 2025 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize are open until 28th February, 2025


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