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The Prevent duty in the NHS: implementation and impacts
As Medact begins new work looking at how the PREVENT strand of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy is affecting the NHS, Reem Abu-Hayyeh gives an overview of the policy and its reception to date.
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First we closed our doors to patients – and now doctors too?
Despite a staff shortfall, the government has blocked visas for 400 doctors recruited by the NHS. Is government prioritising its commitment to immigration controls over patient well-being and public health?
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The Cake Sale
A Medact member questions our appetite for cake sales in hospital foyers.
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How to improve food at your hospital – useful links
If you want to get involved with campaigning for healthier and more sustainable food in your hospital, or in your community in general, you are not alone.
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Hospital Food Campaigning Toolkit
Making hospital food healthier and more sustainable: a toolkit for bringing about change
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Digesting the Indigestible
Unravelling hospital food policy and practices, and finding the way towards healthier, tastier and more sustainable hospital food
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#ourNHS march
National demonstration for a fully-funded and publically owned NHS and social care service.
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Rachel Cottam – “Sustainability in Practice”
Slides available to download
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Frances Mortimer – “The Sustainable Clinician”
Slides available to download
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David Pencheon – “Sustainability in the NHS and wider health / care system”
Slides available to download
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Medact Manchester campaign to save the Salford Royal Hospital kitchen
Background The Salford Royal Hospital, part of the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, is an acute hospital with 839 beds. Whilst patient catering was provided in-house and well rated by […]