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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