Nuclear Weapons Group meeting: June
2025-06-25 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/London)
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's Strategy – Online Call: Membership Culture 1
2025-07-02 19:00 - 20:30
As part of the movement for health justice, your voice is vital in shaping the future of Medact’s work.

We’re developing our strategy for 2025–2030 together, and it’s crucial that it reflects the insights of those driving change on the ground. This is your opportunity to influence its direction!

Join the online calls

We are holding four two online strategy calls: two themes, each with two dates. Sign up below! (Please only sign up to one of each theme.)

Membership Culture at Medact: How can we make Medact a political home for healthcare workers?These sessions provide an opportunity for members to reflect on their experiences within Medact and offer constructive input on how to develop an inclusive and supportive organisational culture that aligns with our mission.

Medact's Strategy – Online Call: Membership Culture 2
2025-07-03 19:00 - 20:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – July Meeting
2025-07-09 18:00 - 19:30
The Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group (originally named the ‘Securitisation of Health Group’) is a space for health workers and campaigners to collectively challenge policing, criminalisation and securitisation practices within and beyond sites of healthcare.The groups’ current priority campaign is calling for the repeal of Prevent in the NHS, the adoption of evidence-based public health policies, and the redressal of harms caused by Prevent. We organise as three working groups: Workshops & Public Engagement, Policy & Lobbying, FOIs and Research.New members are always welcome! If you have any questions or concerns about attending, please email our Campaign Lead Sarah Lasoye at sarahlasoye@medact.org.

Nuclear Weapons Group - July Meeting
2025-07-16 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 meet to provide an update on our ongoing campaigning work, and discuss the current global political landscape as related to nuclear weapons, militarisation and disarmament. Register below to receive the meeting link! For more info or with questions, email Sarah: sarahlasoye@medact.org

Trans Health Justice
2025-07-17 19:00 - 20:30
Trans people seeking gender-affirming healthcare are routinely confronted with pathologisation and the slow violence of years-long waiting lists. In the past five years, attacks on trans healthcare in the UK have intensified:

The NHS has halted prescription of puberty blockers for under-18s in the context of gender-affirming care

Adult trans healthcare services remain chronically underfunded and difficult to access

A recent Supreme Court ruling undermines the right to bodily autonomy and self-determination

These attacks are not isolated – they’re part of a wider rollback of health services and human rights in the UK.For this online event, we’ll explore the state of trans health and trans rights in the UK, how they’re shaped by social and economic determinants like housing and austerity and what resistance rooted in solidarity and justice can look like.We’ll hear from:

Jack Doyle, historian & trans health advocate

Fae Fulconis, athlete and campaigner

Shiraz Hussain, member of rs21

This event is especially valuable for health workers, but it’s open to everyone – so please share widely!This is part of Medact’s Learning for Action series that aims to equip us with the knowledge and skills we need to win a more just world.

Welcome call: join the No Palantir in the NHS campaign
2025-07-21 19:00 - 20:30
Effective organising often comes from workers and communities coming together to fight for their demands. Palestinian health unions have called for our solidarity and action to end the complicity of our institutions in the genocide. Following recent wins at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting, health workers have more power than ever to organise in their workplace for Palestine.

Health Workers for a Free Palestine UK’s (HW4FP UK) current campaign is focused on a US-based military, AI and surveillance company called Palantir that supplies its technologies to the Israeli Defence Ministry whilst it orchestrates genocide in Gaza. They also supply technology to ICE for mass deportations in the US and provide police forces with ‘predictive policing’ technology. This company was recently awarded a £330 million contract with NHS England to manage confidential patient data on a national scale.We say “no” to Palantir in our NHS. Attend this onboarding call hosted by HW4FP to find out about and involve yourself in the No Palantir in the NHS campaign and organise against privatisation, surveillance and genocide. We will go through the strategy and history of the campaign, as well as organising tips and help you to set up campaigns in your local area.Join the worker-led movement to end complicity in genocide!

Nuclear Weapons Group - August Meeting
2025-08-20 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – September Meeting
2025-09-03 18:00 - 19:30

Medact New Joiners meeting: September 2025
2025-09-04 19:00 - 20:00
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.

Alternative Training on Prevent
2025-09-17 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-11-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
It is possible to create a society in which our collective safety and wellbeing are prioritised. Developing trusting, healthy relationships between patients and health workers is essential to this work. However, the Prevent Duty – with the government’s stated aim of identifying “vulnerability to radicalisation” – compromises all of this.

As we’ve outlined in our work, Prevent is a source of harm and increased marginalisation, particularly for Muslim and racialised communities, as well as those with mental health conditions.

So, why is the NHS the only healthcare system in the world with a legal obligation to engage with such a strategy? What aren’t you being told about the harms of Prevent in safeguarding training?

Join us for this series of Alternative Training on Prevent to learn more, and find out how you can add your voice to the movement to end the Prevent Duty. Together we call for #CareNotSurvelliance!

This event is particularly aimed at people who work or are training in, study, or who have worked in health – though everyone from our movement for health justice, interested in learning more, is welcome! If you have any questions or concerns ahead of this event – feel free to email me, sarahlasoye@medact.org.

Nuclear Weapons Group – September Meeting
2025-09-24 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – October Meeting
2025-10-01 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – October Meeting
2025-10-21 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – November Meeting
2025-11-05 18:00 - 19:30

Palestine, Health and the Limits of Humanitarianism
2025-11-11 19:00 - 20:30
What does it mean to be a health worker in the face of genocide?

Join us for a powerful political education webinar on Palestine and the politics of humanitarianism, where we’ll explore the role of health workers in confronting the ongoing genocide in Gaza – and the complicity of the British state in that violence.

Through this conversation, we’ll cut through the depoliticised narratives often used to obscure the reality of Israel’s settler-colonial project, and instead confront the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s health system, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the urgent need for international solidarity.

For this online event, we’ll hear from health workers and organisers committed to naming the violence, challenging the limits of humanitarianism and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to liberation.

Speakers:

Layth Hanbali, community health researcher

Ghassan Abu-Sittah, trauma and reconstructive surgeon

Hannah Caller, community paediatrician

James Smith, emergency physician

Host: Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne, foundation doctor and member of Health Workers for a Free Palestine

This event is especially valuable for health workers, but it’s open to everyone – so please share widely!This is part of Medact’s Learning for Action series that aims to equip us with the knowledge and skills we need to win a more just world.

Medact New Joiners meeting: November 2025
2025-11-17 19:00 - 20:00

Nuclear Weapons Group – November Meeting
2025-11-26 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – December Meeting
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – December Meeting
2025-12-17 18:00 - 19:30

Medact New Joiners meeting: January 2026
2026-01-27 19:00 - 20:00

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – January Meeting
2026-01-29 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – February Meeting
2026-02-04 18:00 - 19:30
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Unlearning Medical Education
2026-02-25 19:00 - 20:30
This member-run workshop brings health workers together for a practical discussion about how – and why – we can start to ‘unlearn’ oppressive systems underpinning our own medical educations. We’ll consider who’s harmed and uplifted by medical pedagogy, how our education shows up in our practices today, and start working collectively towards alternative ways of learning towards health justice. This session will feature group discussions and a critical conversation between Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan and Dr Jo Hartland about their personal, intellectual, and professional experiences of medical learning.

This workshop is hosted by Medact’s Political Education Working Group. Spaces are limited to encourage group discussion – reserve your spot ASAP!

Dr Jo Hartland (they/them) is an Associate Professor of Health Justice Education and School Deputy Education Director at Bristol Medical School. Drawing on their previous work as Doctor in the NHS, their teaching on health justice within medicine is co-produced in partnership with marginalised communities, bringing the voices of those historically excluded from healthcare into curriculum development. Nationally they are the Co-Chair for the Executive Board of the Medical Schools Council (MSC) Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Alliance. They are also an award-winning queer health activist, and in their own time led the development of the GLADD UK Medical Schools Charter on So-Called LGBTQ+ Conversion Therapy which led to their attendance at parliament briefing MPs on these issues. In recognition of their work they were awarded a 2024 National Teaching Fellowship Award and the 2023 Attitude Pride Award. Their research, writing and public speaking explores themes of justice and power in medical education. They hope to use their experience and platform as a disabled and queer educator to role model authentic and meaningful work in healthcare education leadership, inspiring students and colleagues to join in with marginalised communities fighting for social justice.

Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan (she/her) is a doctor, researcher and writer. She qualified in 2004 and is an NHS Consultant in HIV Medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and Deputy Director of the SHARE Collaborative for Health Equity, Queen Mary University of London. Her clinical work, research and advocacy focus on improving health equity. Rageshri has held numerous national charity and policy positions and regularly works with patient organisations. She currently chairs the British HIV Association EEDI Group and steering group of 4M Mentor Mothers CIC. Rageshri is the author of Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing (Trapeze, 2024) longlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize for Radical Non-Fiction. She is an inaugural Wellcome Collection x Spread the Word non-fiction writer awardee (2022).

Build the Health Movement for Housing Justice
2026-03-02 18:30 - 19:45
Skyrocketing housing costs are undermining people’s ability to live stable, healthy lives. Unaffordable rents force people out of their communities, entrench poverty, worsen health inequalities, and push thousands of families into homelessness each year.

This crisis is not inevitable. Before the 1980s, governments took responsibility for keeping rents affordable and invested at scale in secure, high-quality council housing. These policies provided stability for millions and helped build strong, resilient communities.

We also know that change is possible today. Recent reforms — including the abolition of Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions — were secured through sustained campaigning and show the impact of collective action. But the core issue at the heart of the housing crisis remains unaddressed: affordability.

That’s why a broad coalition of housing groups – including Homes for All, London Renters Union, Homes for Us Alliance, and Greater Manchester Tenants Union — have come together to call for a National Housing Demonstration in London in Spring 2026, demanding:

Rent Controls

Public investment in a mass council house building programme

On Monday 2nd March at 6.30pm, we will be hosting a call to:

Find out more about the strategy of the Homes for Us Alliance

Get involved in mobilising the health community as part of a growing national network

Join the communications group shaping messaging and media interventions

Help ensure health justice remains at the heart of the housing movement

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – March Meeting
2026-03-04 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – March Meeting
2026-03-05 18:00 - 19:30

Build the Health Movement for Housing Justice
2026-03-12 18:30 - 19:45
Skyrocketing housing costs are undermining people’s ability to live stable, healthy lives. Unaffordable rents force people out of their communities, entrench poverty, worsen health inequalities, and push thousands of families into homelessness each year.

This crisis is not inevitable. Before the 1980s, governments took responsibility for keeping rents affordable and invested at scale in secure, high-quality council housing. These policies provided stability for millions and helped build strong, resilient communities.

We also know that change is possible today. Recent reforms — including the abolition of Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions — were secured through sustained campaigning and show the impact of collective action. But the core issue at the heart of the housing crisis remains unaddressed: affordability.

That’s why a broad coalition of housing groups – including Homes for All, London Renters Union, Homes for Us Alliance, and Greater Manchester Tenants Union — have come together to call for a National Housing Demonstration in London in Spring 2026, demanding:

Rent Controls

Public investment in a mass council house building programme

On Thursday 12th March at 6.30pm, we will be hosting a call to:

Find out more about the strategy of the Homes for Us Alliance

Get involved in mobilising the health community as part of a growing national network

Join the communications group shaping messaging and media interventions

Help ensure health justice remains at the heart of the housing movement

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – April Meeting
2026-04-01 18:00 - 19:30
