What is the securitisation of health? A number of policing and counter-extremism measures are embedded by the government into UK health services, which at times require health workers to work closely with the police and other security agencies. These measures risk undermining therapeutic relationships, confidentiality and trust in practitioners – as well as drawing health […]
The Leeds group come together monthly for meetings, mostly online and sometimes in person! Medact Leeds are organising locally for climate and health justice as part of the Health for a Green New Deal network, and also taking action to end the hostile environment, campaigning for Patients Not Passports. All are welcome. Please sign up […]
Together, we’re demanding welfare, not warfare – join us!
Medact Bristol is interested and engaged in local, national and international issues that affect public health. Since its creation, Medact Bristol has focused its efforts on campaigns on climate, environment and sustainability, divestment, and migrant access to healthcare. The group’s most recent focus was supporting Reclaim our Buses, a campaign in Bristol to bring buses back […]
Medact Glasgow is a collective of healthcare workers, students and people from other related social disciplines. We organise around, learn about and share information on campaigns related to health justice. Our current focus is on fighting fuel poverty. We are working alongside Fuel Poverty Action, who organise for affordable and sustainable energy and against the inadequate […]
Medact North East are a collective of health workers and students based across the North East, from Northumberland to Newcastle to Middlesbrough!
Discuss how Medact organises its work and our priorities over the next five years.
Discuss how Medact organises its work and our priorities over the next five years.
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 […]
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.
