Medact

Medact New Joiners
2024-12-02 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Zoom
Have you joined Medact any time in the last twelve months? Are you not yet involved in your closest local group or one of our central campaigns or research network?

Welcome to our movement of health workers for health justice! We’d love to meet you at our next New Joiners meeting. This will be a friendly, informal and interactive session and an opportunity to get to know us and let us get to know you.

Some of the things that we’ll be discussing include:

What is Medact?

What do we mean by health justice?

How do we believe change happens?

What can it look like to organise together in the Medact movement?

Whether you’ve just joined or joined a while ago but are yet to find your place, please do come along and share this welcoming space with us.

If you have any questions about attending, drop Cal, one of our Movement Organisers, an email at calumbarnes@medact.org.

Medact Leeds group meeting: December
2024-12-05 19:30 - 20:30
The Leeds group come together monthly for meetings, mostly online and sometimes in person! Medact Leeds are organising locally for climate and health justice as part of the Health for a Green New Deal network, and also taking action to end the hostile environment, campaigning for Patients Not Passports. All are welcome. Please sign up to the mailing list to join the group.

Medact Glasgow group meeting: December
2024-12-10 18:30 - 19:30
Medact Glasgow is a collective of healthcare workers, students and people from other related social disciplines. We organise around, learn about and share information on campaigns related to health justice.

Our current focus is on fighting fuel poverty. We are working alongside Fuel Poverty Action, who organise for affordable and sustainable energy and against the inadequate living conditions which are making people sick.

Our main meeting is in person (or you can join on Zoom) on the second Tuesday of each month – all are welcome! Please get in touch with us on glasgow@medact.org if you want to join our meetings or find out more, or subscribe to the mailing list:

Medact North East group meeting: December
2024-12-11 20:00 - 21:00
Medact North East are a collective of health workers and students based across the North East, from Northumberland to Newcastle to Middlesbrough!

Currently we are working on a climate justice campaign, supporting a grassroots group to win the fight against a large waste incinerator on Teesside, which would pollute the air of the local community as well as accelerating the climate crisis.

We are also exploring campaigns around migrant health justice issues through our new ‘Migrant Health’ group. This includes supporting No to Hassockfield which is fighting to shut down a women’s detention centre in County Durham.

The group meets monthly. Each meeting is facilitated by a different person and they welcome new members! The time is used to discuss current campaigns and anything else relevant. For more information or to join a meeting in-person, get in touch at northeast@medact.org. or subscribe below.

Medact London group meeting
2024-12-12 18:30 - 20:30
Across London, health workers are organising and campaigning for better access to secure, quality, affordable and sustainable housing. This includes working alongside local groups to support local campaigns, as well as demanding policy change on a national level. All are welcome.

Sign up to the Medact London email list to hear about all London group meetings! If you’re unable to attend meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign, you can contact Jordi: jordilopezbotey@medact.org or Cal: calumbarnes@medact.org

The meeting is hybrid, on Zoom and in-person at our office in Bethnal Green:

Medact, 1st Floor, Pelican House144 Cambridge Heath RdLondon, E1 5QJ

Medact Sheffield: NHS Borderlands screening & discussion
2024-12-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Broomhall Community Centre, Broomspring Lane, Sheffield, S10 2FD
Many of us grew up feeling proud of the NHS, our universal and free healthcare service. Sadly, the NHS has become part of the hostile environment imposed on migrants via the levying of exorbitant financial charges for certain patients accessing basic, or life-saving care. The scapegoating of marginalised people for the systemic problems within our NHS is not something we should accept.

The national Patients not Passports (PNP) campaign has recently created a bank of online resources aimed at raising awareness of charging patients from outside the UK. This toolkit will equip those who work closely with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers with the necessary information to resist NHS migrant charging policy and stop patients from being denied healthcare.

We want to raise awareness of this new resource and share it within Sheffield and South Yorkshire. We also want to build on the vibrant group of people in Sheffield who raise awareness of this injustice, help support those who are denied access to care because of their immigration status, and pressure politicians to change this cruel system.

Join us for a screening of the brilliant NHS Borderlands short film, hear from Sheffield residents who have personal experience of the hostile environment in the NHS, discuss actions we can take (such as accessing the PNP toolkit) and enjoy food together.

We will be at the Broomhall Community Centre on Thursday the 12th of December at 7pm. Food will be provided around 8pm. Free entry, anyone welcome!

Please register to help us estimate numbers! If you have any questions, please get in touch: sheffield@medact.org

CANCELLED: Nuclear Weapons Group meeting: December
2024-12-16 18:00 - 19:30
Please note this meeting has been cancelled. See you in the New Year!

Medact’s Nuclear Weapons Group represents the longest standing aspect of Medact’s work towards nuclear abolition, and to address war, armed violence and conflict as global threats to health.

We will meet to provide an update on our ongoing work, and discuss the current global political landscape as related to nuclear weapons and disarmament. Register below to receive the meeting link!

For more info or with questions, email Sarah: sarahlasoye@medact.org

Medact Bristol group meeting: January
2025-01-06 18:00 - 19:00
Medact Bristol is interested and engaged in local, national and international issues that affect public health. Since its creation, Medact Bristol has focused its efforts on campaigns on climate, environment and sustainability, divestment, and migrant access to healthcare. The group’s most recent focus was supporting Reclaim our Buses, a campaign in Bristol to bring buses back into public control. They are now supporting a tenant-led campaign for healthy housing. New members are welcome! Sign up below to receive updates from the group and links to join meetings.

Medact North East group meeting: January
2025-01-08 20:00 - 21:00

Climate & Health National Working Group meeting: January
2025-01-13 18:00 - 19:15
Our Climate & Health Group is campaigning for “Homes for Health” highlighting the links between fuel poverty, poor housing, and the climate crisis. By joining national coalitions like the Warm the Winter Campaign and working with grassroots groups such as Fuel Poverty Action, we have recognised the unique role of health workers in advocating for energy justice, better housing, and a just energy transition. For more information, see our briefing on the public health case to warm our homes, not the planet.

We meet monthly, online. If you’re interested in getting involved please email Maria (mariacarvalho@medact.org) or Cal (calumbarnes@medact.org)

Email to get involved

Sign up to the Climate and Health group email list to be kept up to date with our work:

Medact Glasgow group meeting: January
2025-01-14 18:30 - 19:30

Medact Brighton group meeting
2025-01-15 19:00 - 20:30
Since 2018, the Brighton group has been creating a space in the city for health workers and friends to come together, to learn from each other, support each other, and to fight together for health justice. We meet monthly, in person at St George’s Community Centre, BN2 1ED.

If you want to get involved please email brighton@medact.org or subscribe to the group email list:

Medact New Joiners – Jan 2025
2025-01-27 19:30 - 20:30
Have you joined Medact any time in the last twelve months? Are you not yet involved in your closest local group or one of our central campaigns or research network?

Welcome to our movement of health workers for health justice! We’d love to meet you at our next New Joiners meeting. This will be a friendly, informal and interactive session and an opportunity to get to know us and let us get to know you.

Some of the things that we’ll be discussing include:

What is Medact?

What do we mean by health justice?

How do we believe change happens?

What can it look like to organise together in the Medact movement?

Whether you’ve just joined or joined a while ago but are yet to find your place, please do come along and share this welcoming space with us.

If you have any questions about attending, drop our Movement Organiser Calum an email at calumbarnes@medact.org.

Nuclear Weapons Group meeting: January
2025-01-30 18:00 - 19:30
Note: The date of this meeting has changed from 16th January to 30th January.

Medact’s Nuclear Weapons Group represents the longest standing aspect of Medact’s work towards nuclear abolition, and to address war, armed violence and conflict as global threats to health.

We will meet to provide an update on our ongoing work, and discuss the current global political landscape as related to nuclear weapons and disarmament. Register below to receive the meeting link!

For more info or with questions, email Sarah: sarahlasoye@medact.org

Medact Bristol group meeting: February
2025-02-03 18:00 - 19:00

Securitisation of Health Group Meeting February
2025-02-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
What is the securitisation of health?

A number of policing and counter-extremism measures are embedded by the government into UK health services, which at times require health workers to work closely with the police and other security agencies.

These measures risk undermining therapeutic relationships, confidentiality and trust in practitioners – as well as drawing health services and workers into becoming an arm of policing and counter-terror agencies.

Through research and campaigns, Medact aims to shift understandings of ‘security’, from typically “hard” measures (border enforcement, a punitive criminal justice system, counter-terror measures) and advocate for collective and human security, health and wellbeing. Read more about our work on Securitisation here.

About the group

The Securitisation of Health group is for health workers interested in working on these issues through campaigning, lobbying and research. New members are welcome!

If you have any questions or concerns about attending, please email our Campaign Lead Sarah Lasoye at sarahlasoye@medact.org.

This event will be held online on Zoom.

Medact Leeds group meeting: February
2025-02-06 19:30 - 20:30

Patients Not Passports East London Community Meeting
2025-02-08 11:00 - 13:00 | Vine Church Community House, Holstock Road, Ilford, IG1 1QB, United Kingdom
The Justice for Omisha and Patients Not Passports campaign is inviting migrants who have been impacted by NHS charges or struggled to access the NHS, alongside healthcare workers and community allies, to an open meeting in East London to discuss how we can fight for a more just healthcare system together!

If you’re looking to get more involved with the campaign, know someone who has been impacted by NHS charging, work in healthcare, or live in East London and want to fight back, you’re very welcome to attend!

Through these open meetings, we’re particularly hoping to bring in people whose position as migrants has meant they’ve struggled to access healthcare, so if you know anyone in your networks who has been so impacted or who works with migrant communities directly, please invite them too.

Food will be provided, and transport costs can be reimbursed up to £5.

Medact Glasgow meeting – February
2025-02-11 18:30 - 19:30

Medact North East Meeting – February
2025-02-12 20:00 - 21:00

Nuclear Weapons Group meeting: February
2025-02-19 18:00 - 19:30
Medact’s Nuclear Weapons Group represents the longest standing aspect of Medact’s work towards nuclear abolition, and to address war, armed violence and conflict as global threats to health.

We will meet to provide an update on our ongoing work, and discuss the current global political landscape as related to nuclear weapons and disarmament. Register below to receive the meeting link!

For more info or with questions, email Sarah: sarahlasoye@medact.org

Homes for Health Network meeting
2025-02-19 18:30 - 20:00
Medact’s Climate & Health and Economic Justice & Health campaigns are joining forces with our local working groups to fight for healthy homes as part of the broader struggles for climate, housing, and economic justice.

Our network meetings are opportunities to come together as a movement, to share our learning and to plan and strategise together.

In this meeting we will be discussing the next steps in our national and local work and we will be thinking about what resources we need to continue to build our movement of people power.

These network meetings are designed for people who are already embedded in our work streams. If you are new to our Homes for Health work and would like to get involved email: calumbarnes@medact.org.

Come and build the movement for healthy homes!

Medact Brighton group meeting: February
2025-02-20 19:00 - 20:30
Since 2018, the Brighton group has been creating a space in the city for health workers and friends to come together, to learn from each other, support each other, and to fight together for health justice.

We meet monthly, hybridly (in person and online). If you want to get involved please email brighton@medact.org or subscribe below…

Don't Bank on The Bomb - National Network Meeting
2025-02-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
In a world ablaze with escalating conflicts, global instability, and worsening humanitarian crises, the threat of nuclear weapons to human life is mounting. And yet, every year, billions of pounds flow through UK banks, pension funds, and other financial institutions that invest in companies producing nuclear weapons, making the threat of nuclear war even more real.

At Don’t Bank on the Bomb UK, we are building a nationwide movement to pressure banks and financial institutions to withdraw their support for the nuclear weapons industry, by demanding they move their money away from companies that manufacture and trade in weapons of mass destruction.

Whether you’re an experienced activist or just learning about the issue, Don’t Bank on the Bomb UK is the perfect place to join others committed to building a safer, nuclear-free world.

Join our first network meeting on Tuesday 25th February 2025. We are excited to welcome guests who will be speaking about their work on nuclear disarmament, and the incredible organising that has happened on nuclear divestment.

Medact Bristol group meeting: March
2025-03-03 18:00 - 19:00

Medact North East group meeting: March
2025-03-05 20:00 - 21:00
Medact North East are a collective of health workers and students based across the North East, from Northumberland to Newcastle to Middlesbrough!

Currently we are working on a climate justice campaign, supporting a grassroots group to win the fight against a large waste incinerator on Teesside, which would pollute the air of the local community as well as accelerating the climate crisis.

We are also exploring campaigns around migrant health justice issues through our new ‘Migrant Health’ group. This includes supporting No to Hassockfield which is fighting to shut down a women’s detention centre in County Durham.

The group meets monthly. Each meeting is facilitated by a different person and they welcome new members! The time is used to discuss current campaigns and anything else relevant. For more information or to join a meeting in-person, get in touch at northeast@medact.org or subscribe below.

Medact Leeds group meeting: March
2025-03-06 19:30 - 20:30

Patients Not Passports Cambridge Know Your Rights Session
2025-03-08 10:15 - 12:30 | Arbury Community Centre
The Cambridge chapter of Patients Not Passports invites you to a public event where you can learn about your healthcare rights, including which healthcare services you can access for free (regardless of immigration status), what to do you if you are asked to pay for NHS services, and support services available in Cambridge more broadly. Refreshments provided!

The meeting will be hosted at Arbury Community Centre, Campkin Road, Cambridge, CB4 2LD.

Entry is free for all, but please let us know if you’re coming using the form below!

Medact Glasgow meeting: March
2025-03-11 18:30 - 19:30

Securitisation of Health group meeting: March
2025-03-12 18:00 - 19:30
