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SUMMARY:Unhealthy Liaisons - NHS Collaboration with Counter Terror Policing
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we launch a new briefing: ‘Unhealthy Liaisons: NHS Collaboration with the Counter Terrorism Clinical Consultancy Service (CTCSS)’\, written by Professor Charlotte Heath-Kelly.  \n\n\n\nCT CCS is an NHS–police mental health team that evolved from the Vulnerability Support Hubs\, which were exposed in the 2021 Medact report Racism\, mental health and pre-crime policing. It raises serious concerns about the nature of medical cooperation with Counter Terrorism Policing. \n\n\n\nWe will reveal details about this worrying service\, and be joined by a panel discussion with expert speakers on: the implications of this collaboration\, harms of the securitisation of health\, co-optation of health workers into counter-terror policing\, and the encroachment of counter-terror policing in healthcare and public sector spaces. \n\n\n\nWe will also discuss how we can go about challenging these practices in the current political context\, and as part of Medact’s work campaigning to end Prevent Duty in the NHS.  \n\n\n\nPanelists\n\n\n\nDr Charlotte Heath-Kelly is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She is currently completing a 5 year study\, funded by the European Commission\, investigating the different Prevention of Violent Extremism policies used by European nations. The focus is on the integration of healthcare professionals and pre-crime logics\, or their absence\, in European counterterrorism. Professor Heath-Kelly has published five books with Manchester University Press & Routledge\, and more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in international academic journals. \n\n\n\nDr Layla Aitlhadj is the Director and Senior caseworker at Prevent Watch\, an NGO that supports individuals who have been impacted by the Prevent duty. She has been directly involved with 300 of the 700+ cases that have been documented by Prevent Watch to date. She co-authored the People’s Review of Prevent and the Response to Shawcross report with Prof John Holmwood and has contributed to a number of articles\, UN submissions and reports as an expert in Prevent. \n\n\n\nDr Tarek Younis is the Racial Justice Researcher at Healing Justice London and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University. He researches and writes on Islamophobia\, racism in mental health and the politics of psychology. He teaches on the impact of culture\, religion\, globalisation\, and security policies on mental health. As a registered clinical psychologist\, he primarily attends to experiences of racism\, Islamophobia\, and state violence in his private practice. His book is called The Muslim\, State and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia. \n\n\n\nNina Navid is the Racial Justice Campaigner at Amnesty International UK\, focusing on counter-terrorism\, policing and supporting activists to take anti-racist action. She has previously worked in Amnesty’s Government and Political Relations team\, and as a Crisis & Tactical Campaigner. Prior to working at Amnesty\, she worked for the Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities. \n\n\n\nJim Killock is Executive Director at Open Rights Group. Since joining Open Rights Group in January 2009\, Jim has led campaigns against three strikes and the Digital Economy Act\, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop on UK users\, and against pervasive government Internet surveillance. He is working on data protection and privacy issues\, as well as helping ORG to grow in size and breadth. In February 2024\, ORG released a new report\, Prevent and the Pre-Crime State: How unaccountable data sharing is harming a generation. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event\, so please indicate when registering whether you wish to attend online via Zoom or in-person at a venue in Shoreditch\, East London. Deadline for in-person registration is July 8th. The venue is accessible and full details will be provided on registration.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/briefing-launch-unhealthy-liaisons/
CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Launches
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SUMMARY:Homes for Health: The Public Health Case for Social Homes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second of our series of online gatherings to discuss together how health workers can join the fight for housing and health justice! \n\n\n\nThe so-called housing crisis makes the spaces in which we live damp\, mouldy\, insecure and impossible to afford. The housing system prevents vast numbers of families from simply feeling at home\, and calling the place they live a place of safety. Austerity and the commodification of housing has turned the domestic into a site of illness\, violence\, precarity\, insecurity\, and in some cases death.  \n\n\n\nWe need urgent political action to respond to the public health crisis that health workers are witnessing. This requires rethinking housing beyond commodification and taking action to reclaim it as a public health asset. We need to reclaim housing for health. \n\n\n\nIt will take a movement\, with tenants\, health workers and all sectors of society working together to shift the narrative and end the public health crisis in housing. Join us to get involved with the fight for healthy homes! \n\n\n\nIn this second online gathering\, we will hear from speakers about how health workers are joining the fight for housing justice and how tenants and communities across the country are building power to force change. \n\n\n\n\nMedact members Dr Abi Secker\, Dr Amaran Uthayakumar-Cumarasamy and Dr Isobel Braithwaite\n\n\n\nAdam Gabsi – chair of Inclusion London and Harrow Association of Disabled people. Adam is passionate about Disabled people receiving the justice they deserve and wants to use his position to the benefit of all Disabled people\, London-wide and beyond.\n\n\n\nLaura Vicinanza – leads Inclusion London’s strategic engagement with the Greater London Authority (GLA) and supports DDPOs with influencing local and national government policies.\n\n\n\nGreater Manchester Tenants Union – a democratic\, member-led union\, working across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester. They organise and represent members in the private and social rented sector and fight for safe\, secure and affordable housing for everyone\n\n\n\nDr Abi O’Connor (New Economics Foundation) – an urban sociologist whose expertise centres on understanding the relationship between urban governance\, local politics and the (re)structuring of place\, specifically focusing on the impact of this on communities and areas impacted by regional inequality. She has a keen interest in democratising knowledge through grassroots movements.\n\n\n\n\nBased on London? Join us for an in-person watch party at the Medact office in Pelican House\, Bethnal Green! Just let us know you’re joining in person in the form below! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHomes should be a place of comfort\, health and security. Instead\, across the UK\, homes have become sites of illness. They are rendered cold and damp by poor insulation and sky-high energy prices. They are insecure due to unaffordable rents\, evictions\, and poor-quality housing.  \n\n\n\nCold\, unaffordable and insecure homes are no accident. They are the symptoms of a political system that produces mass illness and deepens inequalities in both health and wealth.  The root causes are political—and this means the solutions are too. \n\n\n\nAt these online gatherings\, together we will gain the tools we need to take action as health workers. Join the fight to win healthy homes for all\, as part of the wider struggles for climate\, housing and economic justice.  \n\n\n\nIn the run up to the general election & beyond we intend to get organised\, fight for healthy homes\, and win. 
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/healthy-homes-gathering-social-housing/
CATEGORIES:Launches,Talks & Lectures
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SUMMARY:Build the Health Movement for Housing Justice
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\nWe 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. \n\n\n\nThat’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: \n\n\n\n\nRent Controls\n\n\n\nPublic investment in a mass council house building programme\n\n\n\n\nOn Monday 2nd March at 6.30pm\, we will be hosting a call to: \n\n\n\n\nFind out more about the strategy of the Homes for Us Alliance\n\n\n\nGet involved in mobilising the health community as part of a growing national network\n\n\n\nJoin the communications group shaping messaging and media interventions\n\n\n\nHelp ensure health justice remains at the heart of the housing movement
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/build-the-health-movement-for-housing-justice-1/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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SUMMARY:Build the Health Movement for Housing Justice
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\nWe 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. \n\n\n\nThat’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: \n\n\n\n\nRent Controls\n\n\n\nPublic investment in a mass council house building programme\n\n\n\n\nOn Thursday 12th March at 6.30pm\, we will be hosting a call to: \n\n\n\n\nFind out more about the strategy of the Homes for Us Alliance\n\n\n\nGet involved in mobilising the health community as part of a growing national network\n\n\n\nJoin the communications group shaping messaging and media interventions\n\n\n\nHelp ensure health justice remains at the heart of the housing movement
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/build-the-health-movement-for-housing-justice-2/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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SUMMARY:Picnic in the park
DESCRIPTION:Come gather with other health workers in Manchester interested in doing community organising work locally! Bring a dish\, bring yourself\, bring your kids – everyone welcome! \n\n\n\nWe will meet at the The Pavilion in Alexandra Park (180 Russell St\, Manchester M16 7JL) at 2.30 pm on Sunday 10th May and find somewhere to picnic. We will likely sit on the main green area\, opposite the tennis courts. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions please email colfallowfield@medact.org
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/picnic-in-the-park/
CATEGORIES:Social
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SUMMARY:NHS ConfedExpo 2026 Fringe Event – Beyond Palantir: What's next for the Federated Data Platform?
DESCRIPTION:On June 10th\, Medact are hosting an in-person event to complement the 2026 NHS ConfedExpo. Parliamentary discourse is growing around the potential for the break clause in the Federated Data Platform (FDP) contract with Palantir to be triggered in February 2027 (see our briefing published in March – “Concerns Regarding Palantir Technologies and NHS Data Systems“). \n\n\n\nWith NHS leaders from around the country gathered in one place\, it feels necessary to provide a space for discussion around the implications of this significant decision and the importance of patient and public trust in health data systems. We have invited a panel of data and health equity experts to speak and there will be the possibility for questions and discussion. \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\nMatt Hennessey – Greater Manchester ICB Chief Data and Analytics Officer\n\n\n\nEmma Runswick – British Medical Association Deputy Chair of Council\n\n\n\nMarc Farr – Chair\, NHS Chief Analytical Officer’s Network Advisory Board Member\, APHA National Data Advisory Group\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be hosted at HOME\, a short walk from Manchester Central Convention Complex (approx 650m) between 1700-1800. The venue is fully accessible to wheelchair users. \n\n\n\nPlease provide an expression of interest as soon as possible using the form below. Spaces are limited and so we will be prioritising people working in the NHS. If you are successful we will follow up with an invitation and further information about the location. If you can’t attend but are interested in the discussion\, we will send out a summary of the key themes of the discussion to share. \n\n\n\nThis event has passed.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/nhs-confedexpo-2026-fringe-event/
LOCATION:HOME Manchester\, 2 Tony Wilson Pl\, Manchester\, M15 4FN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meetings
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