Medact

Medact Sheffield group meeting: April
2024-04-04 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
The Sheffield group come together monthly, alternating between the first Tuesday or Thursday of the month. Meetings are hybrid. Medact Sheffield are organising locally on the Patients Not Passports campaign, seeking to end the Hostile Environment in the NHS. The group are also organising for climate and health justice as part of the Health for a Green New Deal network. All are welcome. Please sign up to the mailing list to join the group and get the details for the next meeting.

Medact Sheffield group meeting: May
2024-05-07 19:00 - 20:30

Medact Sheffield group meeting: June
2024-06-06 19:00 - 20:30

Medact Sheffield: NHS Borderlands screening & discussion
2024-12-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Broomhall Community Centre, Broomspring Lane, Sheffield, S10 2FD
Many of us grew up feeling proud of the NHS, our universal and free healthcare service. Sadly, the NHS has become part of the hostile environment imposed on migrants via the levying of exorbitant financial charges for certain patients accessing basic, or life-saving care. The scapegoating of marginalised people for the systemic problems within our NHS is not something we should accept.

The national Patients not Passports (PNP) campaign has recently created a bank of online resources aimed at raising awareness of charging patients from outside the UK. This toolkit will equip those who work closely with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers with the necessary information to resist NHS migrant charging policy and stop patients from being denied healthcare.

We want to raise awareness of this new resource and share it within Sheffield and South Yorkshire. We also want to build on the vibrant group of people in Sheffield who raise awareness of this injustice, help support those who are denied access to care because of their immigration status, and pressure politicians to change this cruel system.

Join us for a screening of the brilliant NHS Borderlands short film, hear from Sheffield residents who have personal experience of the hostile environment in the NHS, discuss actions we can take (such as accessing the PNP toolkit) and enjoy food together.

We will be at the Broomhall Community Centre on Thursday the 12th of December at 7pm. Food will be provided around 8pm. Free entry, anyone welcome!

Please register to help us estimate numbers! If you have any questions, please get in touch: sheffield@medact.org

Medact Sheffield: New members lunch & walk
2025-01-12 13:00 - 15:00 | The Lescar, 303 Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, S11 8ZF
Medact Sheffield looks forward to welcoming members new and old at the start of January to join us in The Lescar for some food, followed by a walk in Endcliffe park (weather permitting).

This will be a great opportunity for new members to meet each other and learn more about Medact. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to deepen your involvement, we’d love for you to join us.

The park has good paths accessible for those with mobility needs and prams, children welcome.

Please register below:

Mould is Political Screening – Sheffield
2025-06-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Sharrow Community Forum, The OId Junior School, S View Road, Sharrow, Sheffield, S7 1DB, United Kingdom
Over 2 million people in the UK are living in homes with black mould – a serious risk to their health and wellbeing. But it’s not tenants who have gotten us into this situation –  it’s politicians. For too long, politicians have prioritised landlords’ wealth over people’s health. Now, we’re saying: enough.A new film from the Homes for Us alliance, Mould is Political, shows the impact of black mould on one family, and how ordinary people are coming together to demand change.Here in Sheffield, far too many people are living in cold, damp and unsafe homes – making them sick and causing constant stress, all due to political failure and profiteering landlords.

Join Medact Sheffield and Sheffield Tenants Union for a screening of Mould is Political, followed by food and a discussion about the issues people are facing here in Sheffield, and how health workers, tenants and community members can come together to organise for decent, safe housing for all.

Medact All Member Assembly (AGM) 2025
2025-10-03 18:00 - 21:00
The All Member Assembly is our annual opportunity to come together, reflect on Medact’s work, and engage in shaping our direction – welcoming members old and new from across the UK and beyond.

This year, we’re excited to launch our new five-year strategy, which outlines how Medact will continue working towards a world in which everyone is able to live healthy, dignified lives – supported by political and economic systems that prioritise our collective wellbeing.

RSVP

The evening will include a panel discussion with guest speakers (details coming soon!), a presentation of our new strategy and an opportunity for members to vote on its adoption. We’ll close the event with music, snacks and drinks for those attending in person. Members will also have the chance to submit and vote on motions, and to elect any Trustees standing for election.

Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting, but you must be a member to vote. If you’d like to take part in Medact’s decision-making, why not join as a member today?

Submitting motions

The All Member Assembly offers a space for members to propose changes to how Medact is run. If you’d like to submit a motion, please first read “Decision Making in Medact: Governance and AGM”, then contact us at office@medact.org to request a submission form.

The deadline for submitting motions is 9am on Wednesday, 24th September 2025. You must be a member to submit a motion, and it must be seconded by another member.

Election of Trustees

At the Assembly, members will also elect Trustees, who are responsible for the governance of Medact. If you are interested in standing as a Trustee, we encourage you to get in touch for an informal chat. Please email office@medact.org to arrange this and request information about standing for election.

The deadline for applications is 9am on Wednesday, 24th September 2025. To stand as a Trustee, you must be a member and have your nomination seconded by another member.

Logistics

This year’s All Member Assembly will be held in a hybrid format – both in person at Pelican House in Bethnal Green, London, and online via Zoom.

Please register below to let us know you’re coming, and to share any access requirements.

We’ll share the final agenda as soon as it’s confirmed.

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Agenda

Part one: “Power in Community: Reimagining Organising for Health Justice” – Medact Strategy 2025-2030 launch & panel discussion

6:00 – 7:20 pm

1. Welcome & Introduction

Anuj Kapilashrami, Chair of the Board of Trustees

2. Medact 2025-2030 Strategy Presentation

Anna Peiris, Executive Director

3. Panel Discussion

Organising for Health Justice with Jo Sutton-Klein, organiser for BMA

Jo is an emergency medicine registrar and is doing a PhD looking at poverty in A&E. She has been centrally involved in organising several campaigns among doctors. Recently she established a group of doctors who organise around Palestine solidarity within the BMA. She was also a founding organiser of the pay campaign, and wrote the strategies which facilitated tens of thousands of doctors to participate in the recent strike wave. Outside of medicine, Jo has previously organised several campaigns in the Jewish community in support of Palestine.

Making a Political Home for Health Care Workers with Ben Eder, Medact Sheffield

Ben (he/him) is an organiser and GP trainee in Sheffield. He is one of the coordinators of Medact Sheffield. He was, until recently, one of the Movement Organisers at Medact from 2021 until 2024 and prior to that worked as the Climate & Health Campaigner. Ben also organises with the People’s Health Hearing Collective. Ben spends his time dreaming about autonomous spaces for radical community health, swimming and walking in the peak district, playing and chatting football, and having fun with his partner and their 18-month-old son.

Working with Impacted Communities with Izzy Braithwaite, Medact London

Isobel Braithwaite is a public health registrar and has been involved with the London Housing and Health group since 2023, including supporting campaigns in Harrow and at the Nags Head Estate. She has just finished a PhD at UCL focusing on the health impacts of cold and energy-inefficient housing, and recently started in a local authority public health role. She has also worked with the Faculty of Public Health’s Sustainability SIG around climate change and local action on fossil fuel advertising.

4. Audience Q&A / Reflections

Part two: Governance

7:30 – 8:30

Medact Sheffield New Joiners Meeting: October 2025
2025-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW
Are you new to Medact Sheffield or want to find out more about how you can get involved?

Welcome to our movement of health workers for health justice in Sheffield! We’d love to meet you at our New Joiners meeting on Tuesday 28th October. This will be a friendly, informal and interactive session and an opportunity to get to know us and let us get to know you.

We’ll be sharing some food together and discussing:

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 Medact Sheffield?

How can you get involved in our working groups?

Location: Quaker Meeting House 10 St James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW

Time: 7pm – 8.30pm

Whether you want to join or joined a while ago but are yet to find your place, please do come along and share this welcoming space with us.

No Palantir in the NHS - South Yorkshire public meeting
2026-01-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Quaker Meeting House 10 St James Street, Sheffield, S1 2EW
Medact Sheffield are hosting a public meeting bringing together stakeholders, concerned residents, and health workers across South Yorkshire, to discuss how we can take collective action to keep Palantir out of our NHS.

Palantir is a US-based tech firm specialising in data. The use of their software extends from military targeting in Palestine, leading to them being named by the UN as a corporate actor in the genocide in Gaza, to racist predictive policing tactics and many other ethically intolerable practices.

Since 2021, NHS England and the UK Government have been entangled in deals with Palantir lacking any transparency. In 2023, they were awarded a contract for the national rollout of the ‘Federated Data Platform’ (FDP), a platform that looks to process patient data between different sectors of healthcare. Many of the South Yorkshire NHS healthcare providers are in the process of adopting the FDP.

We do not believe that the NHS should be doing deals with the likes of Palantir. They cannot be trusted, they are enabling a genocide, deals like this will only deepen societal inequalities, and it will further entrench and continue the insidious privatisation of our NHS.

It is possible to stop the rollout of the FDP! Health trusts and boards have the power to say no to the FDP and opt for an alternative, as we are already seeing in other areas of the UK. We believe this is possible in South Yorkshire, but only with you and collective action! Let’s send a strong message to NHS England and the UK Government that Palantir and companies like it are not welcome in our NHS.

Join us to find out more about the campaign and how we can strategically take action within South Yorkshire to say NO PALANTIR IN THE NHS.Doors open at 6:30pm with food provided, and the event will begin at 7:00pm. It’s a hybrid event, taking place in person at the Quaker Meeting House and online via Zoom.If you can’t make this public meeting but want to find out more, contact us on sheffield@medact.org or check out the toolkit here https://www.medact.org/2024/resources/toolkits/no-palantir-in-the-nhs-campaign-toolkit/
