This is a guest blog for the Patients Not Passports No Borders in the NHS Week of Action by Kirit, a nurse in the NHS, exploring the impacts of COVID-19 and the Hostile Environment on access to healthcare for marginalised people.
The Hostile Environment is turning the NHS into the new frontier of border control. Join us as we take action against patient charging and demand an end to borders in the NHS!
The Economic Justice & Health Group meets fortnightly on Thursdays at 7pm.If you’re interested in getting involved, please get in touch with movement organiser, Ben Eder – [email protected]
A rally organised by people with experience of the asylum system to show the Government that we oppose the new Nationality and Borders Bill.
Peter Markham who works for the the Immigration Advice Service discusses new research into isolation amongst migrants
In August 2020, Medact and Migrants Organise refused to submit evidence to the Department of Health and Social Care’s limited review of NHS Charging – read our letter to the government explaining why.
Join us at next week’s New Economics Briefing in partnership with the New Economics Foundation, Migrants Organise, Doctors of the World, Kanlungan Filipino Consortium, and Notts Refugee Forum where we’ll […]
Dr Kathryn Medièn, lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, interviews the Patients Not Passports team about migrant access to healthcare during the coronavirus crisis.
The Medact Research Network will be convening for an Access to Healthcare research meeting on Wednesday 1 July, 6.30pm – 8.00pm. Further details on how to join the meeting will […]
Sally, Anna and Kieran – researchers in the Migrant Health Group at St George’s, University of London – explore the increased risk to coronavirus faced by people living in Europe’s migrant camps, and the steps Governments should be taking to ensure they are able to access the testing and treatment they need.