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Researching state violence: Deaths by Welfare x Criminalising Distress
For this edition of the Medact Research Network Quarterly meeting, we’re excited to welcome guest speaker Dr China Mills, who manages the Deaths by Welfare Project at Healing Justice London, to introduce us to this project and its impact and implications for health justice work.
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Freedom Of Information: Knowledge For Liberation
This event is part of Healing Justice Ldn’s ‘Rehearsing Freedoms’ festival. In this workshop led by Medact’s Research Manager Hil Aked, participants will rehearse the liberatory potential – and limitations – of using freedom of information requests to empower ourselves with knowledge.
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Medact Impact Report 2022/23
This is the digital edition of our Impact Report 2022–23
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AGM 2023
The AGM is our annual opportunity to come together and explore the overall running of Medact. As always, we’re excited to bring together members old and new from the UK and beyond.
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Criminalising Distress: empowering patients, challenging police in mental health care
Our current research project is an urgently needed national study to explore the harm created by SIM —Serenity Integrated Mentoring —a controversial new “model of care” adopted by almost half of all mental health trusts in England.
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Medact Groups Check-in
This is a space for people active in Medact local or issue groups to connect, to share collective learning from our organising—the challenges and successes and how we can support each other moving forward.
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Neoliberalism, Security and the Politics of Mental Health
Join us for a panel discussion on the politics of mental health and impact of neoliberal policies and security measures on mental health, with guests Tarek Younis, Mashal Iftikar and Hil Aked.
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Why NHS England’s failure to publish our co-produced policy is a betrayal of service users
A new blog by members of StopSIM exploring the impact of NHS England’s betrayal of service users, and failure to to acknowledge the harm caused by their endorsement of SIM and similar models.
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Criminalising Distress FOI team meeting
The FOI team meet as part of the Medact Research Network’s current project ‘Criminalising Distress’.
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Criminalising Distress FOI team meeting
The FOI team meet as part of the Medact Research Network’s current project ‘Criminalising Distress’.