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Homes for Health National Organising Group meeting: November
2025-11-06 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
The ‘Homes for Health’ campaign unites the health community across the UK with a shared vision to reclaim our homes for people and the planet.

The National Organising Group meets monthly online to coordinate the collective work of the Homes for Health Network. Bringing together our two policy areas (Economic Justice and Climate) with representatives from local groups across the country.

We start at 6pm – 6.30pm for new folks with an onboarding call then move into our rolling agenda from 6.30pm when our regular members join.

This is a coordinating group for members involved in the network – If you would like to get involved you can contact Cal (calumbarnes@medact.org), Jordi (jordilopezbotey@medact.org), or Jack (jackdoyle@medact.org).

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to get in touch, you can also sign up to the Homes for Health mailing list for updates on our work.

The meeting is online via Zoom. Please get in touch for a link.

Palestine, Health and the Limits of Humanitarianism
2025-11-11 19:00 - 20:30
What does it mean to be a health worker in the face of genocide?

Join us for a powerful political education webinar on Palestine and the politics of humanitarianism, where we’ll explore the role of health workers in confronting the ongoing genocide in Gaza – and the complicity of the British state in that violence.

Through this conversation, we’ll cut through the depoliticised narratives often used to obscure the reality of Israel’s settler-colonial project, and instead confront the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s health system, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the urgent need for international solidarity.

For this online event, we’ll hear from health workers and organisers committed to naming the violence, challenging the limits of humanitarianism and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to liberation.

Speakers:

Layth Hanbali, community health researcher

Ghassan Abu-Sittah, trauma and reconstructive surgeon

Hannah Caller, community paediatrician

James Smith, emergency physician

Host: Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne, foundation doctor and member of Health Workers for a Free Palestine

This event is especially valuable for health workers, but it’s open to everyone – so please share widely!This is part of Medact’s Learning for Action series that aims to equip us with the knowledge and skills we need to win a more just world.

Medact New Joiners meeting: November 2025
2025-11-17 19:00 - 20:00
Have you joined Medact any time in the last twelve months? Are you not yet involved in your closest local group or one of our central campaigns or research network?

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

Some of the things that we’ll be discussing include:

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 the Medact movement?

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

If you have any questions about attending, drop our Movement Organiser Calum an email at calumbarnes@medact.org.

Nuclear Weapons Group – November Meeting
2025-11-26 18:00 - 19:30, 2026-11-10 18:00 - 19:30
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 meet to provide an update on our ongoing campaigning work, and discuss the current global political landscape as related to nuclear weapons, militarisation and disarmament. Register below to receive the meeting link! For more info or with questions, email Sarah: sarahlasoye@medact.org

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – December Meeting
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:30
The Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group (originally named the ‘Securitisation of Health Group’) is a space for health workers and campaigners to collectively challenge policing, criminalisation and securitisation practices within and beyond sites of healthcare.The groups’ current priority campaign is calling for the repeal of Prevent in the NHS, the adoption of evidence-based public health policies, and the redressal of harms caused by Prevent. We organise as three working groups: Workshops & Public Engagement, Policy & Lobbying, FOIs and Research.New members are always welcome! If you have any questions or concerns about attending, please email our Campaign Lead Sarah Lasoye at sarahlasoye@medact.org.

Homes for Health National Organising Group meeting: December
2025-12-04 18:00 - 20:00
The ‘Homes for Health’ campaign unites the health community across the UK with a shared vision to reclaim our homes for people and the planet.

The National Organising Group meets monthly online to coordinate the collective work of the Homes for Health Network. Bringing together our two policy areas (Economic Justice and Climate) with representatives from local groups across the country.

We start at 6pm – 6.30pm for new folks with an onboarding call then move into our rolling agenda from 6.30pm when our regular members join.

This is a coordinating group for members involved in the network – If you would like to get involved you can contact Cal (calumbarnes@medact.org), Jordi (jordilopezbotey@medact.org), or Jack (jackdoyle@medact.org).

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to get in touch, you can also sign up to the Homes for Health mailing list for updates on our work.

The meeting is online via Google Meet. Please get in touch for a link.

Nuclear Weapons Group – December Meeting
2025-12-17 18:00 - 19:30

Medact New Joiners meeting: January 2026
2026-01-21 19:00 - 20:00

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/

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – January Meeting
2026-01-29 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – February Meeting
2026-02-04 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group - Gathering + Strategy Day
2026-02-14 10:00 - 17:00 | Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London, London, E1 5QJ, United Kingdom
Members of the Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group are gathering together on Saturday 14th February at Medact Office (Pelican House) for a day of collective visioning, strategy, and action planning for 2026!

We’ll spend time deepening connections, developing shared values, and building strategic actions for our campaigning work – resisting policing, criminalisation and securitisation within and beyond sites of healthcare. Some elements of the day will be facilitated as hybrid sessions, but the majority will be in-person.

If you’ve attended a meeting of the group in the past, or already had a 121 with me, you’re welcome to come along! Just email me to confirm your place (sarahlasoye@medact.org). We will aim to cover travel for all attendees, and lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – March Meeting
2026-03-04 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – March Meeting
2026-03-05 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – April Meeting
2026-04-01 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – April Meeting
2026-04-02 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – May Meeting
2026-05-05 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – May Meeting
2026-05-07 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – June Meeting
2026-06-02 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – June Meeting
2026-06-03 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – July Meeting
2026-07-02 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – July Meeting
2026-07-07 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – August Meeting
2026-08-11 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – August Meeting
2026-08-13 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – September Meeting
2026-09-10 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – September Meeting
2026-09-16 18:00 - 19:30

Nuclear Weapons Group – October Meeting
2026-10-13 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – October Meeting
2026-10-15 18:00 - 19:30

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – November Meeting
2026-11-11 18:00 - 19:30
