‘The climate crisis is a health crisis’
Movement Builder, Rachel Piper, wrote for Ecologist about our open letter from health workers calling on the Government to respect the Court of Appeal’s ruling on Heathrow expansion.
Abigail Whitehouse
Dr Abigail Whitehouse Is an Academic Clinical Lecturer at Queen Mary University London and Paediatric Registrar at Barts Health NHS Trust. Her research focuses upon the harmful impacts of air pollution and she has published research ranging from the effects of harmful...Royal College of Psychiatrists goes Fossil Free
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has today announced that it is divesting from coal, oil and gas companies. The College’s multi-million-pound investment portfolio will go free of fossil fuels with immediate effect. The announcement comes after some impactful...10 reasons Medact’s #HealthJustice Gathering is the place to be as a student
Before deadline and exam season starts, come to #HealthJustice 2020 to enhance your campaign knowledge and research skills, whist also discovering the fabulous city of Birmingham.
Medact Gathering 2020
Join us for our 2020 gathering to explore the interlinked societal and political structures which damage health and how health workers can use their skills and their social mandate to create change for good.
Royal College of Physicians to end investment in fossil fuel and mining companies
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has today announced that it will divest from fossil fuel and mining companies. The RCP will start divesting from the worst oil and gas companies immediately and will divest from all fossil fuel and mining companies, whose...What do we mean when we say #HumanRightToHealth?
Hear the Medact team explain how our vision for a human right to health forms a common thread through all our work areas.
Help us realise a human right to health
We need your help to build our dynamic movement of health workers and activists
2019 Manifesto Analysis
It’s election time, so we’ve been poring over the manifestos from all the major parties to see how they stack up against the aims of our different campaigns and work areas.
Medact Gathering 2020 [POSTPONED]
After careful consideration and consultation, we have now decided to postpone our upcoming Health Justice conference in light of the current situation regarding Coronavirus.
Medact Dorset Autumn Meeting
Details of our next meeting on the evening of Thursday 21st November
Ask your Medical Defence Organisation to stop investing in climate-wrecking fossil fuels
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) and the Medical Protection Society (MPS) are fuelling the climate crisis by investing significant amounts of money in fossil fuel companies. These investments pose a serious ethical dilemma for MDU/MPS members as they conflict with the duty to “do no harm”.
If you are a member of either the MDU or MPS, please consider signing the letter below which will be sent to your relevant medical defence union once a threshold number of signatures is reached.