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  • Becoming an ally for trans equality

    Becoming an ally for trans equality

    How you, as a health professional, can become a trans ally by engaging in much-needed changes to the existing Gender Recognition Act

  • Migrant Access to Healthcare – The Hostile Environment in the NHS

    NHS policies are having a devastating impact on migrant health. Patients who cannot prove they have the correct immigration status can be faced with charges of up to 150% of […]

  • A call to protect Palestinian health workers

    A call to protect Palestinian health workers

    Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) outline their new campaign calling on the UK Government to take action to protect Palestinian health workers

  • Food for Thought

    Join us for a dinner and speaker event organised in conjuction with Medact Glasgow and Medact Scotland. This will be a fantastic opportunity for Medact members, supporters and newcomers from […]

  • Dr Neal Russell on Al Jazeera

    Dr Neal Russell on Al Jazeera

    In July 2018, over a dozen healthcare professionals who received medals for their work during the Ebola Crisis in West Africa, returned their honours to the government in protest of the hostile environment policies in the NHS, including upfront charging and ID checks.

  • Health For All? Meeting Re: NHS Charging Policies

    Are you a health worker at Barts or in Tower Hamlets concerned about how regulations such as upfront charging, data sharing for immigration enforcement and ID checks impact on patient […]

  • Migration & Health

    Migration & Health

    The right of everyone to ‘the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health’ is enshrined within the 1966 UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) placing […]

  • #HungerForFreedom: Practical notes from a doctor for hunger strikers

    #HungerForFreedom: Practical notes from a doctor for hunger strikers

    In light of the hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood IRC, we publish practical notes for people on strike produced by Medact trustee Dr. Frank Arnold.

  • Healthcare charging – unethical practice, unacceptable outcomes

    Healthcare charging – unethical practice, unacceptable outcomes

    A junior doctor writes about the harm to patients caused by the latest changes to the NHS regulations expanding the scope of charging migrants for healthcare, arguing that it complicates crucial decisions made by health professionals.

  • First do no harm – clinical roles in preventing and reducing damage to vulnerable immigration detainees

    First do no harm – clinical roles in preventing and reducing damage to vulnerable immigration detainees

    The available evidence shows that the objectives of significantly reducing the number of vulnerable individuals detained and the duration of their detention have not been achieved by the changes to policy and practice introduced since the initial review into welfare in detention of vulnerable persons produced by Mr Steven Shaw in January 2016. In our…

  • Global Health Watch 5

    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, […]