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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our London group is organising for housing and health justice across the city. Get in touch to find out more.
We meet bi-monthly online and are campaigning for ‘Homes for Health’, bringing a climate and health justice lens to the housing crisis.
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.
Medact Brighton is creating a space in the city for health workers to come together and fight for the human right to health for all.
Join us on Tuesday 25th March for the launch of the Don’t Bank on the Bomb UK divestment toolkit – a one stop-shop for you to kick off your nuclear divestment campaigning!
