Health for XR
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The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis. We are a group of healthcare professionals in support of Extinction Rebellion's key demands.
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In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.
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Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
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“No reasonable person could convincingly argue that sexual predators are less of a risk to patient safety & trust in the profession than climate protesters, yet this is the inexplicable reality the GMC’s failing regulatory processes have left us in.”
My latest piece 👇
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My latest piece 👇
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Climate protester cases expose GMC’s moral failings - Journal of Medical Ethics blog
By Rammina Yassaie In an unprecedent move in UK medical history the first working doctor, GP Patrick Hart, has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months following his imprisonment for act...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“No reasonable person could convincingly argue that sexual predators are less of a risk to patient safety & trust in the profession than climate protesters, yet this is the inexplicable reality the GMC’s failing regulatory processes have left us in.”
My latest piece 👇
blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethi...
My latest piece 👇
blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethi...
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An incomprehensible decision by the GMC.
October 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
An incomprehensible decision by the GMC.
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Shocking. 😢
Deep appreciation to Dr Patrick Hart for drawing attention to the #climatecrisis
Doing his job as a doctor and pointing out the looming health emergency.
Deep appreciation to Dr Patrick Hart for drawing attention to the #climatecrisis
Doing his job as a doctor and pointing out the looming health emergency.
In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
October 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Shocking. 😢
Deep appreciation to Dr Patrick Hart for drawing attention to the #climatecrisis
Doing his job as a doctor and pointing out the looming health emergency.
Deep appreciation to Dr Patrick Hart for drawing attention to the #climatecrisis
Doing his job as a doctor and pointing out the looming health emergency.
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Oh! The GMC
The same GMC ‘soft on doctors guilty of sexual assault’
So sexual assault doesn’t merit removal from the register - but peacefully protesting to save everyone on the planet’s life is
bsky.app/profile/bmj....
The same GMC ‘soft on doctors guilty of sexual assault’
So sexual assault doesn’t merit removal from the register - but peacefully protesting to save everyone on the planet’s life is
bsky.app/profile/bmj....
A new @bmj.com analysis shows that the GMC is being soft on doctors found guilty of sexual assault.
Regulation of doctors is failing victims of sexual assault, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Regulation of doctors is failing victims of sexual assault, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Oh! The GMC
The same GMC ‘soft on doctors guilty of sexual assault’
So sexual assault doesn’t merit removal from the register - but peacefully protesting to save everyone on the planet’s life is
bsky.app/profile/bmj....
The same GMC ‘soft on doctors guilty of sexual assault’
So sexual assault doesn’t merit removal from the register - but peacefully protesting to save everyone on the planet’s life is
bsky.app/profile/bmj....
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Thankyou Patrick for highlighting the climate crisis as an enormous risk to patient safety. Perhaps one day the gmc will acknowledge that your act is one of professionalism and not impairment
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Thankyou Patrick for highlighting the climate crisis as an enormous risk to patient safety. Perhaps one day the gmc will acknowledge that your act is one of professionalism and not impairment
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As a patient, carer, educator, psychologist, I’d have far more confidence in Dr Patrick as my (or anyone’s) GP than those on the tribunal who ruled to suspend him from practice. Openly raising the alarm about harm, when other actions have been disregarded, is an act of responsibility.
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
As a patient, carer, educator, psychologist, I’d have far more confidence in Dr Patrick as my (or anyone’s) GP than those on the tribunal who ruled to suspend him from practice. Openly raising the alarm about harm, when other actions have been disregarded, is an act of responsibility.
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I've known Pat for several years. Awful news that he's suspended. Would choose him as my GP if I could. Many of his actual patients have come out in support of him. All for trying to stop the greatest harm we face.
In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I've known Pat for several years. Awful news that he's suspended. Would choose him as my GP if I could. Many of his actual patients have come out in support of him. All for trying to stop the greatest harm we face.
'Most Drs spend their lives contributing to our healthcare system & caring for patients without foreseeing a time when the fundamental aims of medicine would come into conflict with the Govt,political inertia on public health policies & protecting patients. Dr Harts case shows that time has arrived’
Jailed GP suspended for 10 months over climate protest
A GP who was sentenced to 12 months in prison after he took part in a climate protest should be suspended for 10 months.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
'Most Drs spend their lives contributing to our healthcare system & caring for patients without foreseeing a time when the fundamental aims of medicine would come into conflict with the Govt,political inertia on public health policies & protecting patients. Dr Harts case shows that time has arrived’
In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
October 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
“What is the GMC trying to achieve by depriving Dr Hart the very possibility of being a doctor, for having asked to address what the GMC itself calls “one of the greatest threats to human health?”
📝 "Protecting environmental defenders to safeguard environmental democracy"
My article in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Geographer (Royal Scottish Geographical Society) is now accessible online: issuu.com/rsgspubs/doc...
My article in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Geographer (Royal Scottish Geographical Society) is now accessible online: issuu.com/rsgspubs/doc...
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“What is the GMC trying to achieve by depriving Dr Hart the very possibility of being a doctor, for having asked to address what the GMC itself calls “one of the greatest threats to human health?”
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📝 "Protecting environmental defenders to safeguard environmental democracy"
My article in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Geographer (Royal Scottish Geographical Society) is now accessible online: issuu.com/rsgspubs/doc...
My article in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Geographer (Royal Scottish Geographical Society) is now accessible online: issuu.com/rsgspubs/doc...
September 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
📝 "Protecting environmental defenders to safeguard environmental democracy"
My article in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Geographer (Royal Scottish Geographical Society) is now accessible online: issuu.com/rsgspubs/doc...
My article in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Geographer (Royal Scottish Geographical Society) is now accessible online: issuu.com/rsgspubs/doc...
🧵 Dr Patrick Hart becomes the first working doctor to face possible erasure for climate protest as his Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing begins in Manchester today - healthforxr.com/dr-patrick-h...
Dr Patrick Hart’s becomes the first working doctor to face a fitness to practice tribunal for climate activism. – Health for XR
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October 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🧵 Dr Patrick Hart becomes the first working doctor to face possible erasure for climate protest as his Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing begins in Manchester today - healthforxr.com/dr-patrick-h...
“We now need…the royal colleges, the GMC, the BMA & the NHS to fully support their members who feel compelled to take action. And we need them to raise their own voices loudly & clearly against the genocide & our government’s complicity in it”
Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
I was arrested for peacefully protesting against genocide—why our medical leaders need to speak up
I have never been arrested before, but I went to London’s Parliament Square on 6 September with that as my sole objective. I am now one of over 1400 people, including at least 25 current and former UK...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“We now need…the royal colleges, the GMC, the BMA & the NHS to fully support their members who feel compelled to take action. And we need them to raise their own voices loudly & clearly against the genocide & our government’s complicity in it”
Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Our letter calling for urgent reform of medical regulatory proceedings in @theguardian.com today.
It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Doctors’ tribunals are in need of urgent reform | Letter
Letter: While doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct have been allowed to return to work, others who participated in peaceful climate protests have faced prolonged suspensions, write Prof Hilary Ne...
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Our letter calling for urgent reform of medical regulatory proceedings in @theguardian.com today.
It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Doctors peacefully protesting the climate emergency face harsher sanctions than doctors who are sexual predators. Medical regulation needs urgent reform 🚨👇
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Doctors’ tribunals are in need of urgent reform | Letter
Letter: While doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct have been allowed to return to work, others who participated in peaceful climate protests have faced prolonged suspensions, write Prof Hilary Ne...
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Doctors peacefully protesting the climate emergency face harsher sanctions than doctors who are sexual predators. Medical regulation needs urgent reform 🚨👇
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do."
Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
September 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do."
Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Health professionals join thousands in the march to Downing Street today, calling on the government to make polluters pay
@makepolluterspay.bsky.social
@makepolluterspay.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Health professionals join thousands in the march to Downing Street today, calling on the government to make polluters pay
@makepolluterspay.bsky.social
@makepolluterspay.bsky.social
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We're on the streets today to tell the Government #MakePollutersPay!
Oil and gas giants have made billions for the super-rich - driving up our bills and wrecking our climate. It’s time they paid to fix it! 🌍🔥💰
Our movement is growing fast and we're not going away!
@makethempay.bsky.social
Oil and gas giants have made billions for the super-rich - driving up our bills and wrecking our climate. It’s time they paid to fix it! 🌍🔥💰
Our movement is growing fast and we're not going away!
@makethempay.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We're on the streets today to tell the Government #MakePollutersPay!
Oil and gas giants have made billions for the super-rich - driving up our bills and wrecking our climate. It’s time they paid to fix it! 🌍🔥💰
Our movement is growing fast and we're not going away!
@makethempay.bsky.social
Oil and gas giants have made billions for the super-rich - driving up our bills and wrecking our climate. It’s time they paid to fix it! 🌍🔥💰
Our movement is growing fast and we're not going away!
@makethempay.bsky.social
Why do climate protestors get disciplined but sexual predators don’t?
The GMC appears to be fine with sexual assault, but uncomfortable with peaceful protest.
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The GMC appears to be fine with sexual assault, but uncomfortable with peaceful protest.
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UK doctors guilty of sexual misconduct are not being struck off, research finds
UK doctors guilty of sexual misconduct are not being struck off, research finds
Analysis reveals 24% of guilty doctors handed suspensions but are allowed to keep working in medicine
UK doctors who are guilty of sexual misconduct are not being appropriately sanctioned due to weak disciplinary processes, research reveals.
Nearly a quarter (24%) of doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct were handed suspensions but allowed to continue working in medicine, according to analysis of fitness to practice tribunals by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS). This is despite the regulator, the General Medical Council (GMC), recommending they be struck off the medical register. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Why do climate protestors get disciplined but sexual predators don’t?
The GMC appears to be fine with sexual assault, but uncomfortable with peaceful protest.
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The GMC appears to be fine with sexual assault, but uncomfortable with peaceful protest.
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IF YOU DRILL BABY DRILL 🇺🇲 HOW MANY WILL YOU KILL?
🚨BREAKING: We just disrupted Trump's oily backer's party - an exclusive Republican Overseas UK dinner, just around the corner from where Trump is staying - because his policies and their oily money is KILLING US
🚨BREAKING: We just disrupted Trump's oily backer's party - an exclusive Republican Overseas UK dinner, just around the corner from where Trump is staying - because his policies and their oily money is KILLING US
September 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
IF YOU DRILL BABY DRILL 🇺🇲 HOW MANY WILL YOU KILL?
🚨BREAKING: We just disrupted Trump's oily backer's party - an exclusive Republican Overseas UK dinner, just around the corner from where Trump is staying - because his policies and their oily money is KILLING US
🚨BREAKING: We just disrupted Trump's oily backer's party - an exclusive Republican Overseas UK dinner, just around the corner from where Trump is staying - because his policies and their oily money is KILLING US
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The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
September 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Amazing, brave health workers, arrested for protesting peacefully in support of the health workers and people of Gaza, and against violations of human rights, international law and UK complicity in the genocide.
September 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Amazing, brave health workers, arrested for protesting peacefully in support of the health workers and people of Gaza, and against violations of human rights, international law and UK complicity in the genocide.
Saying it like it is 👇👇👇
September 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Saying it like it is 👇👇👇
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If this doctor is a terrorist, then what is the IDF?
September 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If this doctor is a terrorist, then what is the IDF?
Health workers sat in solidarity with Gazan health workers, 1400 of whom have been killed since the current crisis began. They sat behind a banner which read “Medical Duty > Terror law” citing the Geneva Conventions and UN Security Council Resolution 2286.
👉 healthforxr.com/6th-sept-202...
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September 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Health workers sat in solidarity with Gazan health workers, 1400 of whom have been killed since the current crisis began. They sat behind a banner which read “Medical Duty > Terror law” citing the Geneva Conventions and UN Security Council Resolution 2286.
👉 healthforxr.com/6th-sept-202...
👉 healthforxr.com/6th-sept-202...