Criminalising Distress FOI team meeting
2023-05-08 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
The FOI (“freedom of information”) team meet as part of the Medact Research Network’s current project ‘Criminalising Distress’.

The 18-month project explores the evolution and impacts of, accountability for, and alternatives to Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM), a model of mental health care involving police officers into non-emergency therapeutic interventions.

For more information about the project email Research and Policy Manager Hil Aked at hilaked@medact.org

People's health Tribunal | Tribunal de la Santé des Peuples | Tribunal de Salud de los Pueblos | المحكمة الشعبيّة للصحّة
2023-05-13 00:00 - 2023-05-20 23:59
Following COP 27, in May 2023, join us for a People’s Health Tribunal. The Tribunal will hold space to listen, in six languages, to key struggles against extractive industries from across the African continent and Diaspora communities, holding fossil fuel giants Shell and Total to account. We will share stories of resistance against extractivist and colonial violence and its health impacts as well as visions of justice denied by international judicial systems. The Tribunal will be spread over two sessions on May 13th and May 20th.

We will be sharing more details soon. In the meantime, sign up below to keep up to date!

Après la COP 27, en mai 2023, rejoignez-nous pour un Tribunal de la santé des peuples. Le Tribunal sera un espace pour écouter, en six langues, les principales luttes contre les industries extractives à travers le continent africain et les communautés de la diaspora, exigeant des comptes aux géants des combustibles fossiles Shell et Total. Nous partagerons des histoires de résistance contre la violence extractiviste et coloniale et ses impacts sur la santé, ainsi que des visions de la justice refusée par les systèmes judiciaires internationaux. Le Tribunal sera réparti sur deux sessions, les 13 et 20 mai.

Nous vous donnerons plus de détails en 2023. En attendant, inscrivez-vous ci-dessous pour être tenu au courant!

Después de la COP 27, en mayo de 2023, únete a nosotros para un Tribunal de Salud de los Pueblos. El Tribunal será un espacio para escuchar, en seis idiomas, las principales luchas contra las industrias extractivas de todo el continente africano y de las comunidades de la diáspora, exigiendo responsabilidad a los gigantes de los combustibles fósiles Shell y Total. Compartiremos historias de resistencia contra la violencia extractivista y colonial y sus impactos sobre la salud, así como visiones de la justicia negada por los sistemas judiciales internacionales. El Tribunal se desarrollará en dos sesiones, los días 13 y 20 de mayo.

Compartiremos más detalles en 2023. Mientras tanto, ¡inscríbete abajo para mantenerte al día!

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Housing & Health: London meeting
2023-05-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Medact Office, The Brick Yard, 28 Charles Square, London, N1 6HT, United Kingdom
Medact’s Economic Justice Housing & Health Group is organising to improve policies for better access to secure and sustainable housing. This includes working alongside local groups to support local campaigns, as well as demanding policy change on a national level for better support for social housing, community-owned housing stock and protections for renters.

Over the past few months, our members have been actively involved in national advocacy work through the Homes For Us Campaign, local organising work in Birmingham, and a new project organising with tenants and community organisers in Harrow.

At this meeting, you’ll hear from the members involved in our Housing and Health campaign, get updates on our local organising work in Harrow, help us develop next steps and identify other potential campaigns in London.

You don’t have to be a regular member of the Economic Justice & Health group or a health worker to get involved—everyone is welcome!

If you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign you can contact Jordi: jordilopezbotey@medact.org

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Background

The housing system in the UK is broken. Currently, 1.6 million households are on social housing waiting lists and millions more are struggling to meet unaffordable rents in the private sector. One in five dwellings in England fail to meet decent standards for living, with disregard for basic health and safety measures all too common. Housing is not equitably distributed in the UK: poorer households, ethnic minority groups, the elderly and adults with disabilities are all more likely to live in low-quality, unsafe, insecure housing. Despite all of this, social and private rents are growing faster than the cost of living. Social housing stock is dwindling, yet there are around five times more empty homes in the country than households in need of housing.

As part of the health community, we see and care for the symptoms of an unjust economic system. We are united in struggle with friends and colleagues within and beyond the NHS in organising to end housing-related health inequalities

You can read more in our booklet The Public Health Case for Secure Housing

Demonstration: Stop US nukes coming to Lakenheath!
2023-05-20 13:00 - 15:00 | RAF Lakenheath, Brandon Road, Lakenheath, Suffolk, IP27 9PS, United Kingdom
Earlier this year, it came to light that US nuclear weapons may once again be stationed at the military base RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England.
In the 1950’s and 60’s, US nuclear weapons at RAF Lakenheath were involved in two serious accidents that could have led to their detonation. If this had come to pass, in the words of one senior US official at the time, it could have led to “a part of Eastern England […] becom[ing] a desert”.
Our friends at Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) have called a second demonstration at RAF Lakenheath on Saturday 20th May from 1pm.
CND is organising transport from:

London: book your coach ticket here
Cambridge: email cambridgestopwar@googlemail.com
Brandon station: email sue.wright44@icloud.com to book your place
Norwich: email sue.wright44@icloud.com to book your place

Email information@cnduk.org for further information. If you’re driving to the protest, please park at the RAF Lakenheath viewing area, where a shuttle will then take you to the main gate
If you want to travel and/or attend with other Medact members, email office@medact.org

Neoliberalism, Security and the Politics of Mental Health
2023-05-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Medact Office, The Brick Yard, 28 Charles Square, London, N1 6HT, United Kingdom
The fields of mental health hold the potential to depoliticise experiences that are deeply connected to our social, political and economic environments. By focusing on individual conditions, we risk disregarding those root causes, such as poverty, racism and oppression.

Mental health disciplines are not apolitical fields, and may fail to interrogate the boundaries and limitations of medicine, psychiatry and psychology. Spaces that should centre care and patient autonomy can double as places of producing “loyal, low-risk and productive citizens” (The Muslim, State and Mind). This depoliticisation of mental health disciplines is particularly relevant for racialised minorities, like Muslims.

We’re excited to host a panel discussion with clinical psychologist, academic and author Tarek Younis (The Muslim, State and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia, 2022), Securitisation of Health group member and trainee psychiatrist Mashal Iftikhar, and Medact’s Research Manager Hil Aked whose current project Criminalising Distress explores the harmful impact of policing in mental health care.

Using case studies and experiences, our panel will explore the alleged “apolitical” position of psychiatry and psychology; how psychological theories and practices can work to serve State interests and perpetuate racism and inequality; how austerity and the political economy can cause and exacerbate a population’s poor mental health; and whether the solutions to our mental health crisis can even be found in mental health spaces. They will touch on the increasing securitisation of supposed spaces of care, and the harmful impacts to public health of pressure on providers to report and surveille their patients.

We hope to create a space of collective exploration and expansion of our understanding of individualised “mental illness” and treatments and cures beyond the boundaries of clinical pathology. We would encourage anyone interested in the research, policy or practice of mental health, the securitisation of health, as well as anyone with lived experience of mental illness to attend. Following the panel discussion there will be time for audience questions.

We’re at capacity for in-person attendance.

For those who have been confirmed as attending in-person, the venue has been changed to the Human Rights Action Centre, 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA (map) just 5 minutes from Medact.

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Pegasus Institute’s Summer Institute in Peace, Health and Sustainability
2023-05-23 00:00 - 2023-06-09 23:59
We’re sharing information about this summer’s upcoming Institute in Peace, Health and Sustainability run by McGill University and the Pegasus Institute. The Summer Institute offers courses for students interested in how migration, conflict, and the environment shape human health.

Courses will explore connections between larger events of the world and the health of populations and individuals. The new course “Introduction to Migration and Health” will be offered in Spanish and English and the course “Environment and Global Health” returns this year with a French language option.

Participants are encouraged to take as many courses, across Institutes, as fits in their schedule. A certificate of participation will be issued for each course.

Explore their FAQ document or contact them. There is also Information on pricing, scholarships and registration.

Musicians for Peace and Disarmament: Orchestral concert conducted by MPD Patron Jane Glover DBE
2023-05-25 19:30 - 21:30 | St. James’s Church, 97 Piccadilly, London, W1 9LL
An orchestral concert conducted by Musicians for Peace and Disarmament Patron Jane Glover DBE celebrating the life and work of Bruce Kent. This concert is presented jointly by MPD, CND, MAW and Pax Christi.

Prokofiev Symphony No.1 ClassicalMozart Flute Concerto in D (soloist MPD Patron Wissam Boustany)Haydn Symphony No.103 in E flat The Drumroll

Buy tickets here

Medact Research Network Quarterly Meeting
2023-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
The Medact Rights Research Network Quarterly is an online space for us to come together, share our work, discuss new projects, or delve into deep discussion about research that has caught your interest.

We’ll be welcoming two guest speakers from US-based health justice body Human Impact Partners (HIP), Elana Muldavin and Christine Mitchell who will be in conversation with our Economic Justice & Health campaigner Jordi.

They’ll be speaking about HIP’s new Research Code of Ethics, which has been designed with guidance from community organisers in order to foster research that’s accountable, responsible, equitable, and just to the communities it seeks to serve. Join us to talk about how Medact can do the same.

Christine Mitchell is a research project director with the Health Instead of Punishment program at Human Impact Partners, a national public health nonprofit based in Oakland, CA. She is an organizer with the Boston-based DeeperThanWater Coalition and a co-author of the American Public Health Association policy statements on law enforcement violence and carceral systems. She has a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a Doctor of Science in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Elana Muldavin is a senior research associate at Human Impact Partners, where her work focuses on advancing economic security through collaborative, community-centered research. She believes that policy advocacy, community organizing, and participatory research are powerful tools in service of health and racial equity. Elana holds a Master of Public Health from University of California, Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in sociology from Occidental College.

Questions? Get in touch with our Research & Policy Manager, Hil Aked

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Medact Groups Check-in
2023-05-31 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
This is a space for people active in Medact local or issue groups to connect, to share collective learning from our organising—the challenges and successes and how we can support each other moving forward.

Ideally one or more people from each group can come along and represent their group, and the group representative(s) don’t need to be a coordinator: anyone who is involved is welcome!

As part of the check in, we would love for each group to spend two minutes sharing a few highlights from the last few months, any challenges you’ve had, and any plans you have coming up.

If you have any questions or would like to chat through anything, do get in touch with Ben Eder: beneder@medact.org

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Economic Justice & Health group meeting
2023-06-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
The Economic Justice & Health group meet regularly to discuss current and future campaigns, plan events, work on strategy and share knowledge. The group is open to all and welcomes new members. Questions? Email our EJ&H campaign lead Jordi.

Patients Not Passports New Joiners meeting: June
2023-06-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Want to get involved in the Patients Not Passports campaign?

The best way to get up to speed with the campaign and connected with work going on across the country is to come to our next New Joiners meeting.

In this meeting we’ll explore how NHS charging works and how we can fight back, hear from some of the groups working on the Patients Not Passports campaign, and explore the different ways you can take part. To win, we need everyone working together to oppose NHS charging – you don’t need to work in healthcare to be involved!

If you can’t make the next New Joiners meeting, don’t worry! We can also make time for a quick phone call with you or connect you directly with your local group – get in touch by emailing jamesskinner@medact.org.

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Economic Justice Group Meeting
2023-06-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-07-03 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-07-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
The Economic Justice & Health group meet regularly to discuss current and future campaigns, plan events, work on strategy and share knowledge. The group is open to all and welcomes new members. Questions? Email our EJ&H campaign lead Jordi.

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Free Film Screening of NHS Borderlands, Panel Discussion and Q+A
2023-06-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Crossroads Women’s Centre, NW5, 25 Wolsey Mews, London, NW5 2DX, United Kingdom
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-film-screening-of-nhs-borderlands-panel-discussion-and-qa-tickets-650317064847

Come and learn about our national movement and about the local campaign at the Royal Free Hospital and find out how you can help to end the charging of vulnerable patients for NHS care. There will be a short introduction talk, followed by a screening of the 25 minute documentary, and then a Panel discussion and Q+A afterwards with some snacks and drinks available.

Refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants and are being harmed by the hostile environment policy and hundreds of vulnerable patients are being charged for NHS care at the Royal Free Hospital every year. Some of these patients are destitute, and others are reported to the Home Office which can jeopardise their asylum claim. The hostile environment policies lead to delays, deterrence, damage and tragic deaths for these patients. These policies worsen disparities in terms of health inequality and cause moral injury to healthcare workers.

Not only are these policies unethical and denounced and opposed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and the Royal College of General Practitioners but they are also they are also a big step away from achieving the World Health Organisations target for universal healthcare. Furthermore, it has been proven in various studies that charging migrants for healthcare is not a cost effective way to save money, as it often costs more money to track down patients than is ever recouped, and leads to patients requiring emergency care in the long term which is more expensive and not recoverable. Good access to preventative medicine is much more cost effective and ethical. Healthcare workers refuse to act a border-guards.

The Royal Free hospital was set up, in 1828 to “provide free care to those of little means” and when the NHS was set up by Aneurin Bevan over 100 years later, the founding doctrine was that “illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community.”

Housing & Health: London meeting
2023-06-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Medact Office, The Brick Yard, 28 Charles Square, London, N1 6HT, United Kingdom
Medact’s EJ Housing & Health Group is organising to improve policies for better access to secure and sustainable housing. This includes working alongside local groups to support local campaigns, as well as demanding policy change on a national level for better support for social housing, community-owned housing stock and protections for renters.

Over the past few months, our members have been actively involved in national advocacy work through the Homes for us Campaign, local organising work in Birmingham and have recently started a new project organising with tenants and community organisers in Harrow.

You will be hearing from the members involved in our Housing and Health campaign, get updates on our local organising work in Harrow and help us develop our next steps and identify other potential campaigns in London.

After the meeting we’re having a bit of a social gathering to provide an opportunity to meet other Medact members in London.

You don’t have to be a regular member of the EJ&H group or a health worker to get involved, everyone is welcome!If you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign you can contact Jordi: jordilopezbotey@medact.org

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Background

The housing system in the UK is broken. Currently, 1.6 million households are on social housing waiting lists and millions more are struggling to meet unaffordable rents in the private sector. One in five dwellings in England fail to meet decent standards for living, with disregard for basic health and safety measures all too common. Housing is not equitably distributed in the UK: poorer households, ethnic minority groups, the elderly and adults with disabilities are all more likely to live in low-quality, unsafe, insecure housing. Despite all of this, social and private rents are growing faster than the cost of living. Social housing stock is dwindling, yet there are around five times more empty homes in the country than households in need of housing.

As part of the health community, we see and care for the symptoms of an unjust economic system. We are united in struggle with friends and colleagues within and beyond the NHS in organising to end housing-related health inequalities

You can read more in our booklet The Public Health Case for Secure Housing

Don’t Bank on the Bomb Scotland Day of Action
2023-06-30 12:00 - 13:00
Don’t Bank on the Bomb Scotland is a network of organisations campaigning for Scottish financial institutions and public bodies to divest from the companies that are involved in the production and development of nuclear weapons. The network is organising a Day of Action on Friday June 30th.

This Day of Action will be focussed on keeping up the pressure on the Royal Bank of Scotland to end its support for companies involved in the production and development of nuclear weapons.

It was reported that in January 2021, the NatWest group—which is RBS is a part—had 2.3 billion pounds in outstanding loans or underwriting activities in seven companies heavily involved in the nuclear weapons industry.

You can organise a stall or protest outside your local branch, or come down to planned stalls in Glasgow (Royal Bank of Scotland, Gordon Street) or Edinburgh (Royal Bank of Scotland, Nicholson Square). Both are running from 12noon to 1pm. Anyone is welcome to come along, even for a short time, to hold a placard or help put out hand leaflets!

If you’d like more information, support in setting up a stall or to receive leaflets, email Arthur West of DBoTBS.

Housing & health advocacy workshop with London Renters Union
2023-07-22 11:00 - 16:00 | Medact Office, The Brick Yard, 28 Charles Square, London, N1 6HT, United Kingdom
Health and wellbeing are shaped by the social, economic and physical conditions we are born into, and those in which we grow, live, work and age. Amongst these conditions, housing may be one of the most powerful tools to improve population health.

As part of the health community, we see and care for the symptoms of an unjust economic system. The housing system in the UK is broken and is making us and our patients sick.

Health workers see and treat the symptoms of poor, unstable housing, and can play a crucial part in advocating for secure housing.

We support a growing network of health workers, public health professionals and allied civil society to build the power needed to advocate and campaign for Secure, Quality and Affordable Housing in order to address widening health inequalities.

In this joint workshop with the London Renters Union we will:

Think about the intersection between housing and health and what the impact that the current housing crisis is having on the communities we support

Understand how the current housing crisis was politically produced and how we can change it

Think about the role of health workers as advocates, organisers and campaigners that have a crucial role challenging a housing system that produces illness

Engage in group exercises to learn how to advocate and campaign on behalf of the communities we support

Meet other like minded health workers!

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Agenda:

10:30am: Arrivals, Welcome and Coffee/Tea

11am-12:45pm (with 15 min comfort break):

Fighting for Healthy Homes: Understanding the Housing Crisis

The role of health workers in challenging housing related illness

1pm-2pm: Lunch Break

2-3:30pm: Group Exercise: Campaigning & Advocating for Healthy Homes

4pm onwards: Social (Location tbc)

Housing and Health London Meeting
2023-07-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Medact Office, The Brick Yard, 28 Charles Square, London, N1 6HT, United Kingdom
Medact’s EJ Housing & Health Group is organising to improve policies for better access to secure and sustainable housing. This includes working alongside local groups to support local campaigns, as well as demanding policy change on a national level for better support for social housing, community-owned housing stock and protections for renters.

Over the past few months, our members have been actively involved in national advocacy work through the Homes for us Campaign, local organising work in Birmingham and have recently started a new project organising with tenants and community organisers in Harrow.

You will be hearing from the members involved in our Housing and Health campaign, get updates on our local organising work in Harrow and help us develop our next steps and identify other potential campaigns in London.

After the meeting we’re having a bit of a social gathering to provide an opportunity to meet other Medact members in London.

You don’t have to be a regular member of the EJ&H group or a health worker to get involved, everyone is welcome!If you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign you can contact Jordi: jordilopezbotey@medact.org

Meetings are usually in-person, but this month we’re meeting online due to tube strikes.

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Background

The housing system in the UK is broken. Currently, 1.6 million households are on social housing waiting lists and millions more are struggling to meet unaffordable rents in the private sector. One in five dwellings in England fail to meet decent standards for living, with disregard for basic health and safety measures all too common. Housing is not equitably distributed in the UK: poorer households, ethnic minority groups, the elderly and adults with disabilities are all more likely to live in low-quality, unsafe, insecure housing. Despite all of this, social and private rents are growing faster than the cost of living. Social housing stock is dwindling, yet there are around five times more empty homes in the country than households in need of housing.

As part of the health community, we see and care for the symptoms of an unjust economic system. We are united in struggle with friends and colleagues within and beyond the NHS in organising to end housing-related health inequalitiesYou can read more in our booklet The Public Health Case for Secure Housing

Economic Justice & Health group meeting
2023-07-31 19:00 - 20:30

Economic Justice & Health Group
2023-08-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom

Economic Justice & Health group meeting
2023-08-21 19:00 - 20:30 | zoom

Housing and Health London Meeting
2023-08-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Zoom
Medact’s EJ Housing & Health Group is organising to improve policies for better access to secure and sustainable housing. This includes working alongside local groups to support local campaigns, as well as demanding policy change on a national level for better support for social housing, community-owned housing stock and protections for renters.

Over the past few months, our members have been actively involved in national advocacy work through the Homes for us Campaign, local organising work in Birmingham and have recently started a new project organising with tenants and community organisers in Harrow.

You will be hearing from the members involved in our Housing and Health campaign, get updates on our local organising work in Harrow and help us develop our next steps and identify other potential campaigns in London.

You don’t have to be a regular member of the EJ&H group or a health worker to get involved, everyone is welcome!If you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign you can contact Jordi: jordilopezbotey@medact.org

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Background

The housing system in the UK is broken. Currently, 1.6 million households are on social housing waiting lists and millions more are struggling to meet unaffordable rents in the private sector. One in five dwellings in England fail to meet decent standards for living, with disregard for basic health and safety measures all too common. Housing is not equitably distributed in the UK: poorer households, ethnic minority groups, the elderly and adults with disabilities are all more likely to live in low-quality, unsafe, insecure housing. Despite all of this, social and private rents are growing faster than the cost of living. Social housing stock is dwindling, yet there are around five times more empty homes in the country than households in need of housing.

As part of the health community, we see and care for the symptoms of an unjust economic system. We are united in struggle with friends and colleagues within and beyond the NHS in organising to end housing-related health inequalities. You can read more in our booklet The Public Health Case for Secure Housing

Spokesperson training: Housing & Health
2023-09-09 10:30 - 16:30 | Medact Office, The Brick Yard, 28 Charles Square, London, N1 6HT, United Kingdom
Interested in becoming a Medact spokesperson on economic justice or climate issues?

Giving comments and broadcast interviews to the media can seem daunting, but health workers speaking out can be a powerful way to get our messages across to huge sections of the public.

We are building a network of Medact members who have the skills and confidence to speak to the media about the ‘cost of living crisis’ and the housing crisis, and how these issues are inseparable from climate, economic and health justice! Confidence is key, and this training will help you to feel prepared and ready to speak out with impact.

Join us for an in-person one-day training at the Medact offices in London. This training will be led by our Communications Lead, TJ, who will be joined by our campaign lead for Economic Justice.

The training will go through the fundamentals of speaking to the press and preparing for interviews to make sure you nail your messaging. We will also do practice interviews, with feedback from your peers. Lunch will be provided!

We also have a budget to subsidise travel to this training. As it is a limited budget, we cannot fully fund everyone’s travel. If you would like to access this travel subsidy, please indicate this as well as an estimate of your travel costs in the application form.

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Economic Justice Group Meeting
2023-09-04 19:00 - 20:30

Medact Groups Check-in
2023-09-12 18:30 - 20:00

NHS Borderlands Screening, Liverpool – Merseyside Patients Not Passports
2023-09-14 19:00 - 21:00 | The Bridewell (near The Royal), 101 Prescot Street, Liverpool, L7 8UL
Join Merseyside Patients Not Passports for a screening of the short film ‘NHS borderlands’ – a documentary that gives us deeper insight into the reality of charges to access healthcare, told through the story of Angela, a woman who was charged £8,000 for healthcare.

The film will be followed by a Q+A discussion with healthcare workers and Merseyside residents who’ve experienced the hostile immigration system in the NHS.

Get in touch with Merseyside Patients Not Passports at info@patientsnotpassports.co.uk if you have any questions about the format or accessibility of the event.

Nuclear Weapons Group meeting
2023-09-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
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.

We will meet to provide an update on our ongoing work, and discuss the current global political landscape as related to nuclear weapons and disarmament. Register below to receive the meeting link!

For more info or with questions, email Sarah: sarahlasoye@medact.org

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Patients not Passports New Joiners Meeting: September
2023-09-21 19:00 - 20:30
Want to get involved in the Patients Not Passports campaign?

The best way to get up to speed with the campaign and connected with work going on across the country is to come to our next New Joiners meeting.

In this meeting we’ll explore how NHS charging works and how we can fight back, hear from some of the groups working on the Patients Not Passports campaign, and explore the different ways you can take part. To win, we need everyone working together to oppose NHS charging – you don’t need to work in healthcare to be involved!

If you can’t make the next New Joiners meeting, don’t worry! We can also make time for a quick phone call with you or connect you directly with your local group – get in touch by emailing jamesskinner@medact.org

York: Can a windmill a day keep the doctor away?
2023-09-23 16:00 - 17:00 | SPARK:York CIC, 17-21 Piccadilly, York, YO1 9PB, United Kingdom
Join us for a deep dive into the many connections between health and climate change and learn why a healthy planet makes for healthy humans

Join Medact for a captivating event at SPARK as part of Yorkshire Environment Week 2023!

Sign up on Eventbrite!

What do windmills have to do with heart attacks? What is the link between coal mines and rates of mental health issues? How might preserving forests help us prevent another pandemic?

Buckle up for a deep dive into the links between climate change, the environment and health. Medact invite you to join us for an interactive workshop held by health professionals working in and around Yorkshire. We will help you join these dots and many more, as well as giving you the opportunity to take positive action both on the day and into the future.

Open to absolutely everybody!! – no knowledge or experience needed 🙂 sign up for FREE here.

We welcome any walk ins on the day but signing up ahead of time with help us plan and tailor our workshop to make sure you get the most out of your time with us.

To find out more about Medact or the other wonderful events of York Environment Week see the link below:

https://yorkenvironmentweek.org.uk/events-2022/

Please contact leeds@medact.org with any questions
