Our work
Health injustice is driven by political, social and economic conditions. Our campaigns organise for systems change to win justice.
Donate
By donating, you will support all of our member-led campaigns by helping to fund the training, events and resources we need to build health-worker power.
Upcoming events
Our members
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Monica Sharman
“Through Medact I am developing a deeper understanding of health injustice, and learning the skills to challenge it. It’s been incredible to do this work alongside such a compassionate team of people who inspire me to believe that a fairer world is possible.”
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Rebekah Cheung Judge
“Being a Medact member gives us the opportunity to join together as a community of healthcare practitioners to affect the sociopolitical determinants of health which we see play out every day in the lives of our patients.”
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Calum Barnes
“As a doctor, being a Medact member is a way of advocating for my patients. Being part of a movement toward social justice has given me purpose and identity in a time where it is otherwise only too easy to feel helpless.”
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Michael Orgel
“I’ve been a member of Medact and its predecessor MCANW for decades, trying to counter the existential risk of nuclear weapons. We need to eliminate them before they eliminate us – and the funds saved could help ensure healthcare is a right not a privilege.”
Become a Medact member now
Join a community of health workers fighting for health justice today. Together we have the power to change the system.
Medact membership is open to anyone who works in health and shares our values.
Latest news
- Homes for Health: The Public Health Case for Social Housing
- Messaging Guide: Making the Case for Social Homes
- Unhealthy Liaisons: NHS Collaboration with the Counter Terrorism Clinical Consultancy Service
- Time to demand a radical transformation for health justice
- Watch: From Fuel Poverty to the Just Transition—How Health Workers Can Join the Fight to Win
- Homes for Health: Toolkit
Take action!
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Warm Our Homes, Not Our Planet! Sign the Open Letter
Open letter from health workers to the Secretary of States for energy and housing
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Demand Homes for Health! Write to your candidates
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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Nuclear War Questions: Write to your Prospective Parliamentary Candidates!
Nuclear Disarmament Now: Write to your Parliamentary Candidates!
Our work
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Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, indiscriminate, and inhumane instruments of mass murder ever created. Their use – and even their possession – goes against every principle of international humanitarian law.
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Health for a Green New Deal
We’re building the health movement for a transformative Green New Deal.
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Economic Justice
Our economic system is making people sick. Gross inequality leads to unequal health outcomes. But this is not inevitable: we have the power to change the system. Today in the […]
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Securitisation of Health
We call for collective security, health and well-being, rather than ‘hard’ security measures like border enforcement, a punitive criminal justice system, and counter-terror measures that criminalise entire communities.
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Get involved with the #PatientsNotPassports campaign!
Patients Not Passports are organising to end to racist migrant charging policies within the NHS. Get involved with the campaign!
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Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, most indiscriminate, most inhumane instruments of mass murder ever created. Medact is the UK affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).