• A Healthy and Sustainable Food Future

    A Healthy and Sustainable Food Future

    In this briefing Medact and Eating Better examine UK dietary guidelines and make recommendations to the UK government on how they can drive the change towards more sustainable – as well as healthier – eating.


  • Medact submission to the Labour Party Defence Policy Review

    A number of members of Medact from the Nuclear Weapons Group (NWG) have produced a paper for submission to Labour’s International Policy Commission Defence Review. The submission is based on […]


  • Divestment is No Grand Gesture

    This briefing by Dr David McCoy provides a structured and detailed examination of the arguments used by Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust) and Charlie Jeffery (University of Edinburgh) to support continued investment […]


  • Medact’s position on changes in 2014 Immigration Act

    Medact believes that healthcare should be freely accessible for all who need it on ethical, humanitarian, public health and economic grounds. However, the government’s current policy trajectory is set to […]


  • What the Government is proposing with the 2014 Immigration Act

    Summary According to the government, new measures are needed to combat ‘health tourism’ (i.e. visitors who come to the UK with the express intention of seeking free NHS care) and […]


  • Who has access to free NHS care currently?

    Any non-EEA citizen who is not ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK is liable for charging in secondary care, with some notable exemptions relating to membership to specific groups and specific […]


  • Why Nuclear Weapons remain a very present danger – a briefing for UK health professionals

    Medact member Frank Boulton has produced the following report on why nuclear weapons remain a very present danger. This briefing describes the current situation concerning nuclear weapons in a global context and why […]