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Access to healthcare during a pandemic – a nurse’s perspective
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.
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Patients Not Passports National Network Meeting
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 […]
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Refugees Welcome Demo
A rally organised by people with experience of the asylum system to show the Government that we oppose the new Nationality and Borders Bill.
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Healthcare access for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants: training
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 […]
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Refugee first aid in Calais
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” – […]
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Stop Home Office access to migrant patients’ information
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 […]
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Climate Refugees, The Climate Crisis and Population Displacement – Building a Trade Union and Civil Society Response
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 […]
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Emergency Protest – UK Doctors & Nurses in Solidarity With Syria
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.
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A call on St George’s Hospital Trust to respect migrants’ rights to care
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 […]
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Syria’s double refugees: Palestinians forced to risk everything to reach Europe
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 […]
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Refugee Week
Refugee WeekWatch this video on YouTube