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Global Health Professionals Call for Transition Away from Coal
Medact has joined with more than 80 global health organizations from 30 different countries – together representing more than 300,000 doctors, nurses and public health professionals…
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Medact Manchester campaign to save the Salford Royal Hospital kitchen
Background The Salford Royal Hospital, part of the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, is an acute hospital with 839 beds. Whilst patient catering was provided in-house and well rated by […]
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Stop Trident
To coincide with the #StopTrident march on Saturday 27th February 2016, leading UK health professionals wrote a letter in The Telegraph calling on the UK government to back international efforts to […]
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Medact at the #StopTrident March
Medact at Anti-Trident Nation DemoWatch this video on YouTube
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In Defence of the Heathrow 13
Confronting the Reality of Climate Change, and Challenging the Judgement Against the ‘Heathrow 13’ The recent conviction of thirteen individuals (the ‘Heathrow 13’) for aggravated trespass for blocking one of […]
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Responding to the Needs of Refugees
This is the text from an editorial jointly published in The BMJ by Medact, Doctors Of The World UK, Helen Bamber Foundation, and Freedom From Torture. At the time of writing […]
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Medact investigates health impacts of under-18 recruitment into UK armed forces
Over the last six months, Medact has been developing a project looking at the long-term health impacts of recruiting adolescents into the UK armed forces. The UK is one of […]
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Medact warns against British air strikes in Syria
As a public health charity committed to a safer, fairer and better world, Medact has a reputable history of promoting peace and studying the effects of war, conflict and violence […]
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IPPNW holds Minute of Silence for victims of terror and war
Minute’s silence, Monday 16th of November 2015 11:00 GMT At its London meeting, the Board of Directors of IPPNW decided to join the minute’s silence in remembrance of the victims of […]
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Act now to address urgent threats posed by escalating armed conflict and militarisation, say health experts
Armed conflict and militarisation pose grave and escalating threats to health worldwide and must be tackled urgently, warned a coalition of leading health, peace, development and security organisations at a […]
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Annual Report 2014/15
Medact Annual Report 2014-15