Medact Sheffield: Meeting
2020-03-03 07:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Seminar Room 4, Sheffield Medical School, Beech Hill Road, S10 2RX, Seminar Room 4, Sheffield Medical School, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, S10 2RX, United Kingdom
Medact Sheffield will be meeting on the 3rd March, 7pm – 8.30pm @ Seminar Room 4, Sheffield Medical School, Beech Hill Road, S10 2RX

Medact Scotland: Co-ordinator Lesley Morrison speaking at RCGP event
2020-03-04 18:30 - 21:00 | The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Glasgow, G51 3UU, United Kingdom
Medact Scotland Co-ordinator Lesley Morrison is speaking at the West of Scotland RCGP IPCN event in Glasgow on 4th March: The Climate Crisis: A Health Emergency

Docs Not Cops Glasgow: Training Day
2020-03-07 10:00 - 17:00 | 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, G4 9RH,, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, G4 9RH, United Kingdom
Docs Not Cops is a campaign group of NHS professionals and patients fighting to protect access to healthcare and resist the hostile environment within the NHS.
Docs Not Cops Glasgow are organising a free training day to help educate health care workers from across all disciplines on the negative impacts of the hostile environment and how we can come together to resist. No prior experience or knowledge is required.
The day will be at Civic House from 10am til 5pm on Saturday the 7th of March.
Confirmed speakers include: Medical Justice, Scottish Detainee Visitors, Unity, Ubuntu, Freedom from Torture and Just Right, Doctors of the World
There will be a series of workshops including:

An Introduction to the Asylum System
How the hostile environment impacts health
Living in Detention: Effects on Health
How Healthcare Professionals can resist the Hostile Environment
Working with survivors of torture
Mental health and the Asylum System
Legalities and realities of Healthcare Access
Systemic racism within the NHS

There’ll be free lunch and coffee throughout the day. Civic House is accessible to wheelchair users, please contact with any queries regarding accessibility. We will also have Childcare available throughout the day.
The day is free but ticketed, please confirm attendance as places limited. All healthcare workers welcome!
Register here: https://bit.ly/3920VZa
Any questions about the day please email us at: docsnotcopsglasgow@gmail.com

Bristol Medact: Meeting
2020-03-09 18:00 - 20:00
GP Right to care meeting – building the safe surgeries movement in Bristol.
9th March @ 6pm

Medact Liverpool: Meeting
2020-03-10
Medact Liverpool had to postpone their meeting on the 10th March, but they will be meeting again very soon!

Medact Sheffield: Meeting
2020-03-18 19:00 - 20:30 | University of Sheffield Medical School, University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Broomhall, Sheffield, S10 2RX, United Kingdom
Medact Sheffield will be meeting on Wednesday 18th March, 7pm – 8:30pm, Medical School Seminar Room 4. Latecomers very welcome. We’ll probably manage a quick drink after if you’re free to stick around.

Medact Brighton: Patients Not Passports launch - Standing up for Migrant Healthcare
2020-03-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF, Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF, United Kingdom
Connecting those in Brighton and Hove challenging the hostile environment and fighting for access to healthcare for all. An action planning event to build a strong, collaborative movement across our city. All welcome.
Join us as we bring together people and organisations from across the city who are challenging racism and fighting for access to healthcare for all. We aim to build a collaborative movement that stands in solidarity with marginalised people in our communities and fights the hostile environment in the NHS. As health care workers, activists, migrants and people of Brighton we stand together against the racist charging regulations that prevent people from fulfilling their right to health.
This event will bring together all those working to fight racism and improve access to healthcare across the city. We will hear from the key organisations and individuals doing fantastic work in Brighton and beyond, before breaking up in small groups to make tangible action plans, based on existing our strengths and resources, to see the end of the hostile environment in health in Brighton.
After the workshops please join us to continue the conversation and stay for delicious food provided by the wonderful Jollof Cafe, for a small donation.
Everyone is welcome, whether a seasoned campaigner or someone who is new to activism but is passionate about health justice. The food will be vegan and the venue is wheelchair accessible.
RSVP below or email brighton@medact.org to find out more!
[Registration has now closed]

The Social Justice Approach to Coronavirus
2020-03-19 19:00 - 20:00
In this time of crisis, we need to keep the attention to public health measures that aren’t only good to control the virus outbreak but also extend to ensure that justice and protection is provided to those who are in the most vulnerable and precarious situations in our society.
We will be hosting a Youtube Live webinar to discuss the implications of the Budget and the wider effects of health and economic inequalities, how they combine to increase the vulnerability to the Coronavirus outbreak, and how we need to go beyond disease prevention to address the systemic conditions from which poor health and inequality emerge from.
Join the webinar by following this link: https://youtu.be/jZvWvk6_gos

University of Birmingham Docs Not Cops Conference
2020-03-22 09:00 - 16:00 | The University of Birmingham Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
This event has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Please do get in touch if you are unsure whether any Medact events are happening.
Access to Healthcare Campaigner, James Skinner, will be the headline speaker at the University of Birmingham Doc Not Cops Conference.
22nd March, 9am to 4pm @ The University of Birmingham Medical School.

Medact Scotland: Meeting
2020-03-23 19:30 - 20:30
Medact Scotland’s next meeting will be a virtual meeting. You can join us by clicking the link: meet.google.com/cds-iqow-izy
To RSVP/find out more email: scotland@medact.org

Medact London: Event on Economic Justice Work
2020-03-24 | Medact Office, The Brick Yard, 28 Charles Square, London, N1 6HT, United Kingdom
Event on Medact’s economic justice work

Medact Bristol: Online Meeting
2020-03-25 19:00 - 20:30
This will be an informal discussion on people’s knowledge, experience concerns and thoughts around the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have decided to run this in show of support and solidarity during this difficult time. However, we are aware that people are incredibly busy and so may not be able to join us. For all the key workers who are doing an incredible job, we would like to say a huge thank you. Our thoughts are with you.
You can join us via this Google Meets link: https://meet.google.com/uyy-xqwr-krd?authuser=1

Medact Liverpool: Meeting
2020-03-26
Medact Liverpool meeting on the 26th March

Medact Gathering 2020 [POSTPONED]
2020-03-27 00:00 - 2020-03-29 23:59 | Conference Aston, Aston University, Aston St, Birmingham, B4 7ET, United Kingdom
Health Justice 2020

The health community as a force for change

Friday 27th – Sunday 29th March, 2020 Postponed

Aston University, Birmingham

After careful consideration and consultation, we have now decided to postpone our upcoming Health Justice conference in light of the current situation regarding Coronavirus.

We are obviously really disappointed that we can’t go ahead as we were looking forward to seeing you in Birmingham, but we recognise that the health community is currently working at full capacity to respond to the virus and there are particular risks to a mass gathering of health workers from across the UK.

There has been so much energy building up around the conference and we want to make sure to carry that forward ─ we hope to be in touch soon with a rescheduled date for later this year as soon as we can.

Medact’s 2020 Gathering will explore the interlinked societal and political structures which damage health and discussing the ways in which health workers can use their skills and social mandate to create change for good.

The programme will be made up of a range of different sessions covering our key areas of work, across streams on Access to Healthcare, Peace & Security, Climate Justice & Health, and Economic Justice.

There will be ample opportunity to connect with other Medact Members and supporters, to learn from the campaigning work happening across our movement. You will also have the opportunity to hear from fantastic keynote speakers, attend panel discussions and workshops, as well as gain key skills to further your campaigning work.

What’s on at the conference?

This year’s conference will be made up of streams of sessions covering the broad range of Medact’s current work. Attendees will be free to choose to focus on a key area of interest, or take part in sessions on multiple topics you’d like to learn more about.

View the draft programme!

People's Health Movement Webinar for World Health Day
2020-04-07
As CoVID 19 challenges our way of living, the People’s Health Movement UK/Scotland, Medact, Health Poverty Action are launching a webinar series to explore the challenges that coronavirus has highlighted within health systems, public health, and society at large, both in the UK and globally. It coincides with World Health Day, which sees PHM circles around the world campaign for Health for all, Now!
We will discuss the socio-political determinants of this pandemic, including the most pressing issues at the interface with the community, vulnerable populations, the hostile environment, the
privatisation of NHS, and much more.
Front line activists, academics, public health experts, journalists, will join us to engage in an alternative discussion looking at the current situation from a social justice lens, denouncing the problems, and advocating for the solutions.
The webinars will be held on:

Tuesday 7th April 6.30 pm GMT (‘A UK perspective on CoVID-19’), register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZAodeiurDspztDackmWGiwihhWpePlbWg
Tuesday 14th April, 6.30 pm GMT (‘A global perspective on CoVID-19’), register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZEpfu6urjgjvbMdWhwiViy-MqxOCNPX3w

There is also a Facebook event for the webinar series.

International Day of Action Against Commercialisation of Health
2020-04-07
On World Health Day, decentralised actions are being organised throughout Europe. For the fifth consecutive year, we call on citizens, health workers, associations, etc. to come together on the Day of Action against the Commercialisation of Health.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic we have cancelled all gatherings and actions with physical contact.
We therefore call on every citizen to demonstrate their support by “spreading solidarity, not the virus”.
How? With a “white sheet” action on April 7:

Hang a white sheet with a slogan in a visible place or make a poster at home
Take a picture of yourself with your messages
Post it on social media – add the hashtag #health4all and address it to political leaders.

Find posters, video, press releases and social media accounts for the White Sheet action on 7 April to defend a health system that is publicly funded and accessible for all, outside of market logics – on the website: http://europe-health-network.net/

Webinar: Climate, Health and Covid-19
2020-04-08 19:00 - 20:00
We will need to adapt how we approach our climate work, both during and after the pandemic. We will be hosting a Climate, Health and Covid-19 on Wednesday 8th April at 7pm to explore these issues and share some of the thinking that has already happened in climate and health spaces.
The webinar will be an opportunity to raise any climate concerns and insights you might have. If you are worried about having the time, energy or headspace to take ideas forward – we would still be very keen to hear them, so that as an organisation we can hold these and take them forward ourselves where appropriate.
We will be using Zoom to host the call – to join you will need to register:
Register through Zoom

Medact Liverpool: Meeting
2020-04-14
Medact Liverpool meeting on the 14th April

People’s Health Movement Webinar: 'A global perspective on CoVID-19'
2020-04-14 18:30 - 20:00
As CoVID 19 challenges our way of living, the People’s Health Movement UK/Scotland, Medact, Health Poverty Action are launching a webinar series to explore the challenges that coronavirus has highlighted within health systems, public health, and society at large, both in the UK and globally.
Front line activists, academics, public health experts, journalists, will join us to engage in an alternative discussion looking at the current situation from a social justice lens, denouncing the problems, and advocating for the solutions.
Tuesday 14th April, 6.30 pm GMT (‘A global perspective on CoVID-19’), register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZEpfu6urjgjvbMdWhwiViy-MqxOCNPX3w

Medact Sheffield: Meeting
2020-04-22 19:30 - 21:00
Medact Sheffield will be having an online catch up call on Google Hangouts at 7.30pm this Wednesday, 22nd April. There’s no agenda, it’ll just be good to check-in, see how we’re doing and share thoughts
You can join via this link here: https://meet.google.com/vaj-xkcg-bij

Repeat Webinar: Climate, Health and Covid-19
2020-04-23 19:00 - 20:30
We will need to adapt how we approach our climate work, both during and after the pandemic. We will be hosting a repeat Climate, Health and Covid-19 Webinar on Thursday 23rd April at 7pm to explore these issues and share some of the thinking that has already happened in climate and health spaces.
The webinar will be an opportunity to raise any climate concerns and insights you might have. If you are worried about having the time, energy or headspace to take ideas forward – we would still be very keen to hear them, so that as an organisation we can hold these and take them forward ourselves where appropriate.
We will be using Zoom to host the call – please register for the webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lfFXXVaYS-y2urr62GcNwA

Migrant Solidarity Group: Meeting
2020-04-27 08:00 - 17:00
Medact’s Migrant Solidarity Group will be meeting on Thursday 4th June.

Migrant Solidarity Group: Meeting
2020-04-27 08:00 - 17:00
Medact’s Migrant Solidarity Group will be meeting on Tuesday 7th July.

Migrant Solidarity Group: Meeting
2020-04-27 08:00 - 17:00
Medact’s Migrant Solidarity Group will be meeting on Thursday 6th August

Medact London: Meeting
2020-04-28 18:00 - 20:00
Strategy planning meeting (how national and local fits together)
In our last meeting we discussed how we can adjust our campaigns in the light of coronavirus, as well as how Medact London can work on housing & other economic justice issues.
On this meeting we will be joined by Medact’s Economic Justice campaigner Siddhartha who will support us to build strategies for our campaigns going forward.
You can join us on Zoom, please email rachelpiper@medact.org for details.

The arms industry in the era of COVID-19: lessons for the future
2020-04-29 18:00 - 19:30
Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic reached the UK, it became clear that the NHS was not sufficiently equipped or staffed to respond to the crisis.
In March, the government put out a call for industry to convert its production to manufacture crucial medical equipment, such as ventilators and PPE for frontline workers. To date, a number of arms and defence companies have responded to this call – alongside existing companies that manufacture medical equipment and others.
Workers at Lucas Aerospace called for exactly this kind of arms conversion back in 1976, when they produced an Alternative Corporate Plan – now known as the Lucas Plan.
In this webinar we discuss what a ‘just transition’ from industries that cause destruction to those that support peace and public health could and should look like, hearing from experts in the field of arms conversion and a just transition for workers:

Hilary Wainwright – Founding editor of Red Pepper Magazine and co-author of ‘The Lucas Plan: A New Trade Unionism in the Making?’
Dr. Andy Haines – Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at LSHTM
Phil Asquith – Chartered Engineer and former Chairman of the Lucas Aerospace Combine, Burnley site
Dr. Stuart Parkinson – Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility
Sam Mason – Policy officer at PCS Union and member of the New Lucas Plan project

The arms industry in the era of COVID-19: lessons for the future

Watch this video on YouTube

Medact Bristol: Discussion Group
2020-04-29 19:00 - 20:00
Medact Bristol’s April Discussion group will be on the 29th April from 7pm-8pm

Health and the Green New Deal
2020-04-30 19:00 - 20:30
Our world is rapidly changing. As crises continue, exacerbated by deep inequality and lack of investment in key infrastructure, the need to reassess priorities in society and our economy grows ever stronger.
Join us for this webinar as we explore what a rapid transition to a zero-carbon society underpinned by a Green New Deal could mean for public health, as well as the role the health community can play in bringing it about.
*Speakers TBC*
You will need to register for the Zoom webinar.

Migrant Solidarity Group: Meeting
2020-05-05
Medact’s Migrant Solidarity Group will be meeting remotely on Tuesday 5th May.
For further information please email rachelpiper@medact.org

Medact Research Network: Initial Meeting
2020-05-05 18:30 - 20:00
During times like these the need for solid research that’s well communicated and impactful has never been more pressing.
This first meeting of the Medact Research Network will be a chance to explain the purpose of the research network, get to know each other a bit and put faces to names, share ideas, ask questions and start breaking off into smaller research clusters.
We understand that many members will currently be extremely busy – so we’ll aim to make it fun and there will be no obligatory homework! Please join us if you’re interested, whatever your capacity.
If you would like to join the meeting, please get in touch with Hilary Aked with brief details of your interest in the Research Network.
