Petition: Health community demands, Build 1ST for Druids Heath
We as health workers are demanding that the council Build 1ST before any further Druids Heath tenants are evicted from their current homes.
Cost of inequality crisis: Statement on the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’
We are writing as healthcare professionals to express our grave concern about the impact of the so-called ‘cost of living crisis’ on our collective health.
Medact Impact Report 2021–22
Contents A message from the ChairEconomic Justice Health for a Green New Deal Patients Not Passports Peace & SecurityResearch Our movementTreasurer’s report Photo: Health workers at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow on the Global Day of Action for Climate...Hiroshima Day Appeal 2022
Any amount you can give this Hiroshima Day will help us to build the health movement to end war and nuclear weapons.
STOP the Silvertown Tunnel – letter from London Health Workers
For the sake of public health, it’s time that Mayor Sadiq Khan cancels the Silvertown Tunnel, and lives up to his own call for a Green New Deal for London. If you’re a member of the health community living or working in London, please sign the letter below and share it with your colleagues!
In Celebration of the Life of Bruce Kent
In this blog, members of Medact share memories of Bruce Kent – the renowned peace activist and ex-priest who recently sadly passed away – and celebrate his legacy.
North East health workers banner drop to support Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty
On Saturday 18th June, we, local health workers in Medact North East, dropped a banner from the Millennium Bridge in Newcastle reading “Health Workers for the Nuclear Weapons Ban”. Once again we are looking into the abyss of nuclear war. I have been working to abolish...Global Health Watch 6 – in the shadow of the pandemic
Global Health Watch (GHW), now in its sixth edition, is the definitive alternative voice on health. Published since 2003, with contributions from activists and academics from around the world, GHW6 integrates rigorous analysis of the social, economic, political and...Pledge: Health workers against prevent
Our primary objective as health workers is the duty of care to the patient in front of us. Government policies like Prevent jeopardise this duty and consequently public health. As health workers and members of the health community, our duty of care is to challenge any and all attempts at making caring professions into an arm of the Home Office or police.
A People’s Economy: economic justice & health booklets
Check out our brand new booklets, developed by members of the Economic Justice & Health Group. Each explores the public health case for liveable incomes, secure housing and tax justice.
The Public Health Case Against the Policing Bill
This briefing argues that the PCSC Bill’s expansion of police power and prisons will in fact harm public health
The public health case for a Green New Deal
In this new briefing, our Climate & Health Group make the public health case for a transformative Green New Deal.