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.
This is a regular meeting for anyone involved in the Patients Not Passports campaign. Groups from around the country get together to share ideas, learn from each other, and plan the next steps of the campaign. These meetings are only for people already involved in the...
Are you a doctor, nurse, physio, receptionist, healthcare assistant or other healthcare professional? Do you care about equality in healthcare access? Do you care about access for essential healthcare to vulnerable refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in...
Last weekend a group of 7 doctors and medical students from the Medact Refugee Solidarity Group drove to Calais to volunteer with the “Refugee First Aid and Support Team” – a group of primarily UK-based medics attempting to provide basic first aid to...
Medact is supporting Doctors of the World’s campaign to stop the Home Office from accessing migrant patients’ personal information. Earlier this year, the UK government and NHS digital struck a data-sharing deal that allows immigration officials to get hold of...
This conference from the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group aims to dispel refugee myths, work on a new Protocol for the international protection of those affected by climate change, raise demands for stronger action, and agree a climate refugees...
Healthcare workers of the UK: grab your uniforms and activate the power of your voice. The bloodshed must stop now. Join Medact for a solidarity action at Parliament Square next Saturday where we hope to add our voices to the demands of the Syrian and the international humanitarian and medical community.
Within the UK, over the past decade or more, we have witnessed a movement toward increasingly restrictive policy around entitlement to healthcare for those without a defined immigration status. This population are arguably one of the most vulnerable groups...
Rohan Talbot is Campaigns and Media Officer at Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), a partner organisation in the Health through Peace movement. The Medact Refugee Solidarity Group (MRSG)** supports MAP’s campaign for equal rights for Palestinian refugees from...
Written by Medact members Rebecca Cousins and Pauline Latil. On Saturday 12th of March, the Medact Refugee Solidarity Group joined Movement for Justice by Any Means Necessary and gathered alongside two thousand other protesters to demand the closure of Yarl’s Wood,...
