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Climate Change, Clean Air and Fossil Free Health – Why & how health professionals can use divestment as a powerful tool to fight climate change and protect health
Climate change threatens to undo decades’ worth of global health gains, but the health community can help stop this. This event will explore the connections between climate change, fossil fuels […]
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The Cake Sale
A Medact member questions our appetite for cake sales in hospital foyers.
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Global Health Watch 5
For over a decade, Global Health Watch has been the definitive source for alternative analysis on health. This fifth edition addresses the key challenges facing governments and health practitioners today, […]
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Hospital Food
Every year, the NHS spends about £600 million on food and catering services, mostly in hospitals. But hospital food is often considered to be of poor quality, and the hospital […]
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BHP Billiton AGM solidarity demonstration
On Thursday 19 October, we joined London mining network, War on Want, Colombia Solidarity Campaign and People & Planet, for a demonstration against BHP’s neocolonial extractivism. We stood in solidarity with […]
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Sick of bad hospital food? 5 steps you can take
Medact’s work to improve hospital food follows from our new report, “Digesting The Indigestible”. But if you want to take more direct action, there is also our Campaign Toolkit, with […]
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Hospital Food Case Study – North Bristol NHS
North Bristol NHS is the largest hospital trust in the South West serving nearly a million people from Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. It also has a wider catchment […]
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Hospital Food Case Study – Nottingham University Hospitals
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH)’s 90 wards and 1,700 beds provide health services to 2.5 million people in the city of Nottingham, as well as specialist services for an additional 3-4 […]
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Farming and Antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing global public health threat, that requires urgent and co-ordinated action across all sectors. Whilst most of the focus has been on human use of […]
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How to improve food at your hospital – useful links
If you want to get involved with campaigning for healthier and more sustainable food in your hospital, or in your community in general, you are not alone.
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Comment on the government’s plan to tackle air pollution published today
Excellent news about a ban on petrol and diesel cars, but it needs to be expedited Commenting on the government plan to tackle air pollution published today, Professor Jonathan Grigg said: […]