Consultation on the Central London ULEZ – Medact Response
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The draft of the text of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty was released in Geneva on May 22nd by the president of the negotiating conference, Elayne Whyte Gomez of Costa Rica. The text is available here: http://www.icanw.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BanDraft.pdf....Medical Students call on the British Medical Association to sell fossil fuel investments
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Seventy years after two devastating nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan, causing an estimated 250,000 casualties, the world still harbours 16,500 nuclear weapons which are many times more powerful than those that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many are on...Taking the Pulse of Hospital Food
Happy NHS Sustainability Day! A national day of action across the health sector to highlight the important role of sustainability in health service delivery. Hospital environments that promote food which is both healthy and sustainable are absolutely key to the...Response from Prime Minister Theresa May re: government action on diesel
A response has been received from Prime Minister Theresa May to the letter signed by nearly 300 doctors and other health professionals in February 2017, which called for action on diesel-related air pollution. In her response she recognises that diesel is a...Media coverage of diesel letter to Theresa May
Thanks to everyone who signed the letter to Theresa May calling for government support for diesel phase out in towns and cities. Below is some of the media coverage of the letter. Sadiq Khan suggests driving could be banned on certain days in central London to cut...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…