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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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UK Doctors Vote to End Investments in the Fossil Fuel Industry
The British Medical Association, the representative body of doctors in the UK, has voted to end its investments in fossil fuel companies, making it the first health organisation in the […]
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Open Letter: to the World Medical Association requesting it to publicly voice its objection to pressure on physicians to participate in forced feeding
Dear President Mungherera, Chairman Haikerwal, and Secretary General Kloiber, We, the undersigned national medical association and health and human rights organizations, call on the World Medical Association (WMA) to […]
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Letter to the World Medical Association requesting it to publicly voice its objection to pressure on physicians to participate in forced feeding
18 Health & Human Rights organization call on the World Medical Association (WMA) to publicly voice its objection to different attempts around the world to pressure physicians to participate in […]
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Annual Report 2013/14
Our Annual Report includes our financial information for the past year as well as a six month update on our programmatic work. Medact Annual Report 2013-14
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Day 50 of the Palestinian mass hunger-strike: Stop Israel’s force-feeding bill
Since 17 April 2014, over 100 Palestinian detainees and prisoners have been on hunger strike in protest at Israel’s policy of Administrative Detention (see box). On 9 June, an […]
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Letter to Ms Lin Homer, Chief Executive HM Revenue & Customs on Tax Avoidance
Tax abuse is wrong. And Medact believes it should be considered a national public health problem. But the rules of the international banking, trade and finance systems are rigged to allow […]
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Ruth Stern: Medact at the 2nd UK People’s Health Assembly held in Scotland, April 2014.
From the moment people starting registering there was a buzz – people reconnecting with friends and colleagues from way back, Scottish delegates chatting to those who ventured north from England, […]