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Serious violence measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill undermine public health
A briefing focusing on the risks of harm associated with the proposed Serious Violence Duty (SVD) and Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs) in the PCSC Bill.
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Bearing Witness — a new digital campaign connects UK health workers with their peers in humanitarian disasters
‘Bearing Witness’, a new digital healthcare campaign, will seek to bring health workers in conflict zones together with those in the UK. In this blog, campaign co-founder and paediatrician Dr. Hesham Abdalla explains the reasoning behind the campaign.
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Bearing Witness: Healthcare in Gaza – digital campaign launch
Join us for the online launch of Hexitime’s ‘Bearing Witness’ campaign, a campaign connecting healthcare workers in the UK with their peers on the frontlines of political and humanitarian crises
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Research Meeting: ‘Kill The Bill’
The government has misleadingly branded the dangerous PCSC Bill a “public health approach” to combating serious violence. This research meeting will be a chance to feed in to a briefing Medact is producing in support of the Kill The Bill movement.
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Annual Report 2020/21
Our 2020 Annual Report provides an overview of our work and direction in the last year, including how this has pivoted in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Medact & nuclear power: considering our position
Medact consultation briefing The climate crisis is the single biggest threat to public health. Medact has called for the UK to transition to a zero-carbon economy by 2030 as part […]
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Counterterrorism police can’t spin surveillance as care
Once you cut through the spin, the evidence about vulnerability support hubs raises serious ethical concerns.
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IPPNW Student Discussion on “The Vow from Hiroshima” and the Importance of Medical Student Activism
“The Vow from Hiroshima” is an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate, 89-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing. Register for the discussion now to access the film stream 7th-8th August.
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Steps in the right direction at the Biden-Putin Geneva Summit
On June 16th 2021, President Biden and President Putin’s joint declaration made at the Geneva summit gave hope of better diplomatic ties and a more stable relationship. In their statement, […]
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Exploring the Ethics and Impact of the Prevent Duty on the NHS
It has been nearly a year since Medact published its report, False Positives: the Prevent counter-extremism policy in healthcare. The report shed light on a strand of the government’s counter-terror […]
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Prevent duty in NHS ─ June planning meeting
An online meeting to discuss the ways that health workers can take action on issues related to the Prevent duty in the NHS.