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Medact's blog is a hub for the online progressive health community, with posts on peace, economic justice, climate change, human rights and health. It is UK's public health charity working to educate and advocate on the wider determinants of health.
Medact Blog
2d ago
Medact is looking for an experienced campaigner to lead our Health & Human Rights Programme. You’ll be taking the lead on our Patients Not Passports campaign, organising against racist immigration controls in the NHS.
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Medact Blog
1w ago
In early November, American voters chose to re-elect Republican party candidate Donald Trump for a second term. We know this election result is a gut punch, regardless of how likely […]
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Medact Blog
1w ago
Submissions for the 2025 Holdstock-Piachaud Student Essay Prize are open until 28th February, 2025
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Medact Blog
3w ago
Introduction Helpful links and contacts What is Palantir? What is the NHS FDP contract? How did Palantir get it? Data privacy, profiteering and surveillance Outsourcing, privatisation and quality concerns How […]
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Medact Blog
2M ago
Medact Staff & Dr James Smith – Trustee This week marks a full year of Israel’s sustained military assault on Gaza, and throughout occupied Palestine. Shamefully, a year on, this […]
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Medact Blog
2M ago
Ensure election candidates are keeping high quality, insulated housing and proportionate responses to the climate crisis at the top of their agenda.
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Medact Blog
2M ago
On the eve of UNGA’s Summit of the Future, IPPNW released the Urgent Call to Step Back from the Brink of Nuclear War to address the growing risk of the […]
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Medact Blog
2M ago
Medact Housing and Health Group joined tenants from across London to protest against poor housing conditions and demolition of homes run by Peabody Trust Housing Association.
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Medact Blog
2M ago
Medact North East joins SINE to push Newcastle City Council to withdraw their involvement with new waste incinerator.
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Medact Blog
2M ago
Don’t Bank on the Bomb UK is a new campaign from Medact’s Nuclear Weapons Group. Building on work from our partners at ICAN, PAX, and DBOTB Scotland – we’re growing […]
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