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Preventing Torture – the role of physicians and their professional organisations
Preventing Torture: the role of physicians and their professional organisations: principles and practice was originally launched with a Comment piece in the Lancet. The report considers how professional medical bodies can […]
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The Future of the NHS
Alarmed by the way ‘choice’ is being used to promote the NHS reforms, Medact wrote a pamphlet which unpicks what is meant by ‘choice’, exposes how the increase in ‘choice’ […]
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Medact responds to NHS White Paper
Medact responded to the government consultation on the NHS White Paper Equity & Excellence: Liberating the NH, arguing that health professionals must be free to concentrate on the best interests […]
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Background paper on the issues raised by the NHS White Paper
In preparation for its response to the 2010 government White Paper Equity & Excellence: liberating the NHS, Medact produced a background document summarising what it considered were the main issues […]
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Rehabilitation Under Fire – health care in Iraq 2003-7
‘A little understood, unfamiliar war’ – US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, resignation speech, November 8, 2006 Medact’s five earlier Iraq reports presented data on health and health services, and thus […]
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Conflict Fuels Iraqi Health Crisis – 2006 update
A further update on the state of health and healthcare in Iraq, published in 2006 and documenting changes since 2005. Click here to download a copy of the report.
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Britain’s New Nuclear Weapons – illegal, indiscriminate, and catastrophic for health
In the foreward to the White Paper on ‘The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent’ presented to Parliament on December 4th the Prime Minister says he ‘is confident that […]
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Iraq Update 2005
This update was published in 2005 following significant developments in Iraq since 2005 when Medact published Enduring Effects of War: Health in Iraq. This update provides a brief overview of those […]
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The ‘Skills Drain’ of Health Professionals from the Developing World – a Framework for Policy Formulation
This is the second of Medact’s two papers on the ‘skills drain’ of health professionals from the developing world, which examine the economic, governance and human rights issues that surround […]
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The International Migration of Health Workers – a human rights analysis
Medact has launched two papers on the ‘skills drain’ of health professionals from the developing world, examining the economic, governance and human rights issues that surround this controversial issue. They […]
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Enduring Effects of War – health in Iraq 2004
This evidence-based report analyses from a public health perspective the impact on health and health services of the 2003 war on Iraq, and the country’s ensuing political and security crisis. It builds […]