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Open Letter: for the people in Gaza
Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect […]
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Resources for Refugee & Migrant Healthcare
Doctors of the World – London Clinic Praxis, Pott Street, London E2 0EF. Tel: 020 8123 6614 Mobile: 07974 616 852 www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk Open every Mon, Wed and Fri 1-5pm. No appointment […]
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Immigration Act Strategic Workshop
Medact has been working with Alma Mata, Doctors of the World, Migrants’ Rights Network, the Terrence Higgins Trust, The National AIDS Trust, Still Human Still Here, Maternity Action and other organisations as part of the Entitlement Working […]
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Medact’s position on changes in 2014 Immigration Act
Medact believes that healthcare should be freely accessible for all who need it on ethical, humanitarian, public health and economic grounds. However, the government’s current policy trajectory is set to […]
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What the Government is proposing with the 2014 Immigration Act
Summary According to the government, new measures are needed to combat ‘health tourism’ (i.e. visitors who come to the UK with the express intention of seeking free NHS care) and […]
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Who has access to free NHS care currently?
Any non-EEA citizen who is not ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK is liable for charging in secondary care, with some notable exemptions relating to membership to specific groups and specific […]
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Day 50 of the Palestinian mass hunger-strike: Stop Israel’s force-feeding bill
Since 17 April 2014, over 100 Palestinian detainees and prisoners have been on hunger strike in protest at Israel’s policy of Administrative Detention (see box). On 9 June, an […]
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Spring Appeal: Freedom From Torture
This spring, Medact is appealing for funds to support its Healthcare and Human Rights programme. We will use any money raised to campaign against the denial of healthcare for refugees and asylum seeker and stop medical complicity in torture.
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2nd People’s Health Assembly
This event is being run by the People’s Health Movement. For more information about PHM, please visit www.phm-uk.org.uk. The People´s Health Movement (PHM) has its roots deep in the grassroots […]
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Medact and RSM Event: Torture – An ethical dilemma for the medical profession?
Medact and the Royal Society of Medicine are holding an event on 29th April: “Torture – An ethical dilemma for the medical profession?” Torture is all too common and widespread; […]
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Preventing Torture report follow-up workshops: the case of Sri Lanka
In May 2013 in the House of Lords, Medact organised a workshop to discuss the recommendations of the Sri Lankan case study in the Medact report Preventing Torture: the role […]