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Mitigating public health risk from evictions
Sixteen of the UK’s leading public health organisations have written to Secretary of State for Housing Robert Jenrick urging him to extend the eviction ban due to be lifted Monday […]
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Action Call: Housing & public health ─ the eviction crisis in the time of COVID-19
The government plans to lift its eviction ban for rental tenants on 24th August. The ensuing wave of evictions will have dire consequences for housing security and overall public health. Join us to find out what you can do to help.
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Urgent meeting ─ organising against the end of the eviction ban
On the 24th of August the eviction ban will be lifted. This will have some serious repercussions on housing insecurity that translate to risks of COVID19 transmission and wider public […]
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Economic Justice & Health Group – third meeting
Our next group meeting will focus on orientation of the issue group. We will spend time organizing what training, resources and actions are required. We will hear back from our […]
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COVID-19 and economic justice: a GPs perspective
Clare Andrews, a GP in East London and co-ordinator of Medact London, writes about her experiences as a clinician during the coronavirus crisis.
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Medact Research Network: Economic Justice Research Meeting
The Medact Research Network will be convening for an Economic Justice research meeting on Wednesday 24 June, 6.30pm – 8.00pm Further details on how to join the meeting will be […]
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Economic Justice & Health Group – second meeting
In our second group meeting we will go deeper into the roles and function of the working groups, where we are in the campaign cycle and moving forward the actions from our Building Economic Justice webinar.
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Mutualist New Deal or digital Big Brother?
What do we want beyond COVID-19? Tom Wakeford outlines two possible futures for the UK.
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Economic Justice & Health Group ─ first meeting
Medact’s newly convened Economic Justice & Health issue group will be meeting online on Wednesday 3rd June at 6:30pm. This will be the first meeting of the new Medact issue […]
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Submission to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Medact produced a submission to the HCLG Committee on their inquiry into the Impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) on homelessness and the private rented sector. The submission is part of the work […]
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COVID-19 affects everything – more than a disease control plan, we need a manifesto
In this new piece, former Medact Director and Professor of Global Public Health David McCoy discusses the need for a much broader, whole-societal response to COVID-19.