by Guddi Singh | Jan 20, 2015 | Blog
Guddi Vijaya Rani Singh is a Medact member and a doctor training in paediatrics in London. She also has a masters in Public Health from Harvard University and has worked for the World Health Organization (WHO). She is passionate about social justice, human rights, and...
by Guddi Singh | Aug 29, 2014 | Blog, Economic Justice
Our friendly high street pharmacists are turning into trojan horses for further NHS privatisation. Image: Flickr/Leo Reynolds. Some rights reserved. Britain’s trusted high street chemist hasn’t been feeling well of late – and it’s getting sicker. The brainchild...
by Guddi Singh | Aug 15, 2014 | Blog
NHS campaigners are marching in the footsteps of the 1936 Jarrow hunger marchers, joining up NHS camapiagners across the country. Will you join them en-route? Credit: Copyright Vin MullenAs the Coaltion Government’s dismantling of the NHS continues apace, actions are...
by Guddi Singh | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog, Economic Justice
Donning scrubs, white lab coats and picket signs, doctors and healthcare professionals rallied with anti-poverty activists today outside of Boots the Chemists’ flagship store to publicise how tax avoidance is sickening the NHS and risking the public’s health. The...
by Guddi Singh | May 7, 2014 | Blog
From behind owls-eye spectacles, Cathy McCormack’s diminutive frame breathlessly declaims: “ We are fighting a war without bullets”. In many ways this feisty wee woman – who from her days living in a Glasgow council estate now campaigns for healthy housing and against...
by Guddi Singh | Mar 25, 2014 | Blog, Economic Justice
The budget’s failure to clamp down on tax avoidance – centred on the City of London – starves both our own and overseas health systems of desperately needed cash. While George Osborne’s latest budget has managed to distract everyone with a few small...
by Guddi Singh | Mar 5, 2014 | Blog
Last week saw the release of the much vaunted “Political origins of health inequity” report by the Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health—an analysis of how policies and factors external to the health sector impact on health inequity,...