Join us at next week’s New Economics Briefing in partnership with the New Economics Foundation, Migrants Organise, Doctors of the World, Kanlungan Filipino Consortium, and Notts Refugee Forum where we’ll be discussing healthcare, COVID-19 and the Hostile Environment. We’ll be hearing from: Susan Cueva, Kanlungan Filipino Consortium – talking about their report A Chance to […]
Join NEF and Patients not Passports to discuss what the UK can learn from these international and historical struggles for universal healthcare to organise and win. A new report by the New Economics Foundation and the Patients not Passports coalition shows that the struggle for universal healthcare is not unique to the NHS in the […]
This November, COP26 was due to take place in Glasgow. To mark this moment, the COP26 Coalition is hosting From the Ground Up – a global gathering providing the space to educate, strategise and co-ordinate, to build power and connect within our global justice movements. This is an opportunity for Scottish, UK, European and international […]
Dr Max Thoburn, a member of our Economic Justice & Health Group, will be speaking at the University of Birmingham Docs Not Cops “Exploring Health Inequalities in 2020” Conference. He will be discussing findings from the upcoming Medact report on economic policy and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Sarah Walpole, another Medact member, […]
Our Access to Healthcare Campaigns & Programme Lead, James Skinner, will be speaking at the3million’s Young Europeans Network EU Citizens Politics Festival on Sunday 18th April from 10.00am – 11.30am. Find out more and register your place
It has been nearly a year since Medact published its report, False Positives: the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare. The report shed light on a strand of the government’s counter-terror strategy, its harms within the health system, and the ethical questions that Prevent raises. The Muslim Doctors Association (MDA) are holding a lunch-time presentation and […]
“The Vow from Hiroshima” is an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate, 89-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing. Register for the discussion now to access the film stream 7th-8th August.
What’s the deal with COP 26? We’ll be joined by speakers from the COP 26 Coalition and Glasgow Calls Out Polluters to explore what to expect at COP 26 and how we take action for climate justice.
On Monday 6th September, Medact Sheffield invites you to Access to Healthcare in the Hostile Environment, a webinar exploring how hostile environment immigration policies in the NHS are deterring migrants from accessing the care they need.
Medact Yorkshire are delighted to invite you to our online contribution to York Environment Week where we discuss ‘What has the Climate Crisis got to do with our Health?’.