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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 […]
From the 20th – 24th February, two members of Medact’s new Refugee Solidarity Group went to volunteer in the so-called Calais ‘Jungle’. This is the first of a series of […]
This is the text from an editorial jointly published in The BMJ by Medact, Doctors Of The World UK, Helen Bamber Foundation, and Freedom From Torture. At the time of writing […]
Opening session and welcome 1. Welcome Gill Walt, Medact Patron and LSHTM 2. Medact, HPA and this conference David McCoy, Medact Director 3. Launch of Global Health Watch 4 Ron […]
Doctors of the World – London Clinic Praxis, Pott Street, London E2 0EF. Tel: 020 8123 6614 Mobile: 07974 616 852 www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk Open every Mon, Wed and Fri 1-5pm. No appointment […]
Medact has been working with Alma Mata, Doctors of the World, Migrants’ Rights Network, the Terrence Higgins Trust, The National AIDS Trust, Still Human Still Here, Maternity Action and other organisations as part of the Entitlement Working […]
Medact believes that healthcare should be freely accessible for all who need it on ethical, humanitarian, public health and economic grounds. However, the government’s current policy trajectory is set to […]
Summary According to the government, new measures are needed to combat ‘health tourism’ (i.e. visitors who come to the UK with the express intention of seeking free NHS care) and […]
Any non-EEA citizen who is not ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK is liable for charging in secondary care, with some notable exemptions relating to membership to specific groups and specific […]