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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. […]
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Letter from one GP to another – a personal plea to Dr Liam Fox MP to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia
What follows is the text of a letter sent by Medact Member and trainee GP Sarah Alhulail to Dr Liam Fox MP, Secretary of State for International Trade, and a former […]
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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 […]
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Healthy Air
Health professionals treat the impacts of air pollution on a daily basis. The recent report Every Breath We Take, by the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health and The […]
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Medact Manchester campaign to save the Salford Royal Hospital kitchen
Background The Salford Royal Hospital, part of the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, is an acute hospital with 839 beds. Whilst patient catering was provided in-house and well rated by […]
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Better Medical Care in Immigrant Detention Centres
Following a meeting organised by Medact with the generous assistance of the Royal Society of Medicine, of seven doctors working in immigration detention centres and six from voluntary organisations produced a consensus statement for dissemination.
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Immigration Act Strategic Workshop
Medact has been working with Alma Mata, Doctors of the World, Migrants’ Rights Network, the Terrence Higgins Trust, The National AIDS Trust, Still Human Still Here, Maternity Action and other organisations as part of the Entitlement Working […]
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Preventing Torture report follow-up workshops: the case of Sri Lanka
In May 2013 in the House of Lords, Medact organised a workshop to discuss the recommendations of the Sri Lankan case study in the Medact report Preventing Torture: the role […]