Medact
  • About Medact
    • People
    • History
    • Partners
    • Funders
    • Annual Reports
  • Our Work
    • Arms & Conflict
    • Homes for Health
    • Patients Not Passports
    • Abolitionist Approaches to Health
    • Palestine
    • Research
  • Publications
    • Reports
    • Blog
    • Journal
  • Get Involved
    • Membership
    • Member Groups
    • Actions
    • Jobs
  • Events
    • Upcoming
    • Past
Join
Donate
  • Royal College of Psychiatrists goes Fossil Free

    February 26, 2020
    Royal College of Psychiatrists goes Fossil Free

    The Royal College of Psychiatrists has today announced that it is divesting from coal, oil and gas companies. The College’s multi-million-pound investment portfolio will go free of fossil fuels with […]


  • Royal College of Physicians to end investment in fossil fuel and mining companies

    January 6, 2020
    Royal College of Physicians to end investment in fossil fuel and mining companies

    The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has today announced that it will divest from fossil fuel and mining companies. The RCP will start divesting from the worst oil and gas […]


  • Ask your Medical Defence Organisation to stop investing in climate-wrecking fossil fuels

    November 4, 2019
    Ask your Medical Defence Organisation to stop investing in climate-wrecking fossil fuels

    The Medical Defence Union (MDU) and the Medical Protection Society (MPS) are fuelling the climate crisis by investing significant amounts of money in fossil fuel companies. These investments pose a serious ethical dilemma for MDU/MPS members as they conflict with the duty to “do no harm”. If you are a member of either the MDU…


  • Healthcare workers stand with the Student Climate Strikers

    September 20, 2019
    Healthcare workers stand with the Student Climate Strikers

    Millions of children and young people from around the world have been striking from school on Fridays to highlight political inaction on the climate crisis. The Youth Climate Strikers called […]


  • Showing that the health community supports the Student Climate Strikers

    September 4, 2019
    Showing that the health community supports the Student Climate Strikers

    On 20th – 27th September, Medact members and other healthcare workers will be supporting the millions of children and young people from around the world who have been striking on Fridays in an urgent call for action to address the climate crisis.


  • Royal College of Emergency Medicine goes Fossil Free

    July 5, 2019
    Royal College of Emergency Medicine goes Fossil Free

    The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has sold all fossil fuel investments formerly held in its £1.3m portfolio. It joins a growing list of global healthcare institution divestments worth […]


  • Net-zero by 2050 is too little too late; some reaction to the Committee on Climate Change Net Zero report

    May 14, 2019
    Net-zero by 2050 is too little too late; some reaction to the Committee on Climate Change Net Zero report

    Our Fossil Free Health campaigner, Deirdre Duff, offers some reaction to the recent Net Zero report by the Committee on Climate Change.


  • Activism, extractivism and the healthcare community

    April 26, 2019
    Activism, extractivism and the healthcare community

    A profit-driven, extractive economy is severely undermining the life support systems of the planet and exacerbating health inequities around the world. The fossil fuel industry epitomises the worst of what […]


  • Ask the Royal College of Physicians to stop investing in fossil fuels

    March 28, 2019
    Ask the Royal College of Physicians to stop investing in fossil fuels

    Members and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians are co-ordinating this letter to the college President and Treasurer encouraging them to end the college’s investment in the fossil fuel industry.


  • Leading UK Public Health body ends investment in fossil fuel industry

    December 10, 2018
    Leading UK Public Health body ends investment in fossil fuel industry

    The UK Faculty of Public Health has ended all investment in gas, oil and coal companies. In doing so it highlights the health impacts of fossil fuel driven climate change. Our Fossil Free Health campaigner, Deirdre Duff, shares the news.


  • British Psychological Society divests from gas, oil and coal

    November 13, 2018
    British Psychological Society divests from gas, oil and coal

    The British Psychological Society is divesting from fossil fuels! It joins a growing number of health organisations that are cutting ties with gas, oil and coal. Dr Deirdre Duff reports on their divestment decision.


  • About
  • Mission
  • History
  • People
  • Partners
  • Funders
  • Our work
  • Arms & Conflict
  • Homes for Health
  • Patients Not Passports
  • Abolitionist Approaches to Health
  • Research
  • Get involved
  • Events
  • Actions
  • Member Groups
  • Membership
  • Subscribe for Emails
  • Learn more
  • Reports
  • Videos
  • Talks
  • Journal
  • Blog
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Comment Policy
  • Press
  • Contact

Medact © 2023 | Registered Charity 1081097 | Company Reg No. 2267125 | Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E1 5QJ, UK