Medact
@medact.bsky.social
Health workers for health justice! https://medact.org
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"Humanitarianism has enabled the genocide to last for two years.
A single operating room won’t change anything. Particularly when that operating room is paid for by the same Government paying for the missiles and bombs."
A single operating room won’t change anything. Particularly when that operating room is paid for by the same Government paying for the missiles and bombs."
What does it mean to be a health worker in the face of genocide? 🩺
Join our political education webinar on Palestine, health and the limits of humanitarianism – exploring solidarity, liberation, and the destruction of Gaza’s health system.
www.medact.org/event/palest...
Join our political education webinar on Palestine, health and the limits of humanitarianism – exploring solidarity, liberation, and the destruction of Gaza’s health system.
www.medact.org/event/palest...
Palestine, Health and the Limits of Humanitarianism - Medact Calendar
Join us for a webinar on Palestine and the politics of humanitarianism, where we’ll explore the role of health workers in confronting the genocide in Gaza.
www.medact.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"Humanitarianism has enabled the genocide to last for two years.
A single operating room won’t change anything. Particularly when that operating room is paid for by the same Government paying for the missiles and bombs."
A single operating room won’t change anything. Particularly when that operating room is paid for by the same Government paying for the missiles and bombs."
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🚨ACT NOW: Stand with NHS nurses facing deportation!
300 Band 3 Nursing Assistants employed by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust may lose their jobs & right to stay in the UK due to the Trust's inaction.
👉Tell the Trust to safeguard jobs NOW:
patientsnotpassports.co.uk/nurses-in-ma...
300 Band 3 Nursing Assistants employed by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust may lose their jobs & right to stay in the UK due to the Trust's inaction.
👉Tell the Trust to safeguard jobs NOW:
patientsnotpassports.co.uk/nurses-in-ma...
Nurses in Manchester at Risk of Deportation – Patients Not Passports
patientsnotpassports.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨ACT NOW: Stand with NHS nurses facing deportation!
300 Band 3 Nursing Assistants employed by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust may lose their jobs & right to stay in the UK due to the Trust's inaction.
👉Tell the Trust to safeguard jobs NOW:
patientsnotpassports.co.uk/nurses-in-ma...
300 Band 3 Nursing Assistants employed by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust may lose their jobs & right to stay in the UK due to the Trust's inaction.
👉Tell the Trust to safeguard jobs NOW:
patientsnotpassports.co.uk/nurses-in-ma...
What does it mean to be a health worker in the face of genocide? 🩺
Join our political education webinar on Palestine, health and the limits of humanitarianism – exploring solidarity, liberation, and the destruction of Gaza’s health system.
www.medact.org/event/palest...
Join our political education webinar on Palestine, health and the limits of humanitarianism – exploring solidarity, liberation, and the destruction of Gaza’s health system.
www.medact.org/event/palest...
Palestine, Health and the Limits of Humanitarianism - Medact Calendar
Join us for a webinar on Palestine and the politics of humanitarianism, where we’ll explore the role of health workers in confronting the genocide in Gaza.
www.medact.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
What does it mean to be a health worker in the face of genocide? 🩺
Join our political education webinar on Palestine, health and the limits of humanitarianism – exploring solidarity, liberation, and the destruction of Gaza’s health system.
www.medact.org/event/palest...
Join our political education webinar on Palestine, health and the limits of humanitarianism – exploring solidarity, liberation, and the destruction of Gaza’s health system.
www.medact.org/event/palest...
🗓️ Join the Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group's meeting tonight - Wednesday 5th November, 6-7.30pm!
Open to health workers and health justice campaigners interested in resisting policing and securitisation practices within and beyond healthcare.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
Open to health workers and health justice campaigners interested in resisting policing and securitisation practices within and beyond healthcare.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – November Meeting - Medact Calendar
Join to discuss policing, criminalisation and securitisation practices within and beyond sites of healthcare.
www.medact.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🗓️ Join the Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group's meeting tonight - Wednesday 5th November, 6-7.30pm!
Open to health workers and health justice campaigners interested in resisting policing and securitisation practices within and beyond healthcare.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
Open to health workers and health justice campaigners interested in resisting policing and securitisation practices within and beyond healthcare.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
🚨📣 This Saturday 1st November!
Join us in London for 'Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World' – as we host brilliant speakers, campaigning to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons in our lifetimes.
Free to attend and open to all – make sure you're registered 🥂⬇️
Join us in London for 'Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World' – as we host brilliant speakers, campaigning to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons in our lifetimes.
Free to attend and open to all – make sure you're registered 🥂⬇️
🚨 T-2 weeks until we host: Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World – an evening lecture, conversation and drinks reception in London, free and open to all!
Interested in learning more about the movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction? Join us ⬇️
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Interested in learning more about the movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction? Join us ⬇️
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World - Medact Calendar
We welcome Medact members, health workers, students, and particularly young campaigners as we reflect on the fight for a nuclear weapons free world.
www.medact.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🚨📣 This Saturday 1st November!
Join us in London for 'Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World' – as we host brilliant speakers, campaigning to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons in our lifetimes.
Free to attend and open to all – make sure you're registered 🥂⬇️
Join us in London for 'Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World' – as we host brilliant speakers, campaigning to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons in our lifetimes.
Free to attend and open to all – make sure you're registered 🥂⬇️
The government blames “supply and demand,” but the housing crisis is man-made:
🏠 Buy-to-let landlords selling up or passing on costs.
💸 Years of weak tenant protections.
📈 A lack of affordable housing.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
🏠 Buy-to-let landlords selling up or passing on costs.
💸 Years of weak tenant protections.
📈 A lack of affordable housing.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
Private rent in Britain now swallows 44% of the average wage
Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, and £2,736 in the capital, with hotspots showing hefty rises
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The government blames “supply and demand,” but the housing crisis is man-made:
🏠 Buy-to-let landlords selling up or passing on costs.
💸 Years of weak tenant protections.
📈 A lack of affordable housing.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
🏠 Buy-to-let landlords selling up or passing on costs.
💸 Years of weak tenant protections.
📈 A lack of affordable housing.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
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Some of our partners joining us at #HCD2025 include Peckham Palms, Centric Labs & Latin Elephant.
We’ll also be joined by @medact.bsky.social, sharing insights from their participatory community research and the Nags Head Healthy Homes campaign 🏡
We’ll also be joined by @medact.bsky.social, sharing insights from their participatory community research and the Nags Head Healthy Homes campaign 🏡
October 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Some of our partners joining us at #HCD2025 include Peckham Palms, Centric Labs & Latin Elephant.
We’ll also be joined by @medact.bsky.social, sharing insights from their participatory community research and the Nags Head Healthy Homes campaign 🏡
We’ll also be joined by @medact.bsky.social, sharing insights from their participatory community research and the Nags Head Healthy Homes campaign 🏡
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A fantastic opportunity for ant-nuclear activists to meet up and learn more about the movement to abolish WMD, in London on 01 November.
🚨 T-2 weeks until we host: Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World – an evening lecture, conversation and drinks reception in London, free and open to all!
Interested in learning more about the movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction? Join us ⬇️
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Interested in learning more about the movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction? Join us ⬇️
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World - Medact Calendar
We welcome Medact members, health workers, students, and particularly young campaigners as we reflect on the fight for a nuclear weapons free world.
www.medact.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A fantastic opportunity for ant-nuclear activists to meet up and learn more about the movement to abolish WMD, in London on 01 November.
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Yes. Yes. Yes.
One of the many reasons I love @medact.bsky.social is because they have the courage to speak the truth.
So whilst the majority of NGOs applaud Trump’s deal, it’s heartening to see this statement call it what it is: a colonial project that robs Palestine of autonomy.
One of the many reasons I love @medact.bsky.social is because they have the courage to speak the truth.
So whilst the majority of NGOs applaud Trump’s deal, it’s heartening to see this statement call it what it is: a colonial project that robs Palestine of autonomy.
October 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Yes. Yes. Yes.
One of the many reasons I love @medact.bsky.social is because they have the courage to speak the truth.
So whilst the majority of NGOs applaud Trump’s deal, it’s heartening to see this statement call it what it is: a colonial project that robs Palestine of autonomy.
One of the many reasons I love @medact.bsky.social is because they have the courage to speak the truth.
So whilst the majority of NGOs applaud Trump’s deal, it’s heartening to see this statement call it what it is: a colonial project that robs Palestine of autonomy.
The ceasefire agreement, and accompanying Trump-Netanyahu 20 point plan, lays out a deeply colonial approach to the future of Gaza. 👇https://www.medact.org/2025/blogs/statement-on-gaza-ceasefire/
Statement on Gaza ceasefire - Medact
The ceasefire agreement, and accompanying Trump-Netanyahu 20 point plan, lays out a deeply colonial approach to the future of Gaza.
www.medact.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The ceasefire agreement, and accompanying Trump-Netanyahu 20 point plan, lays out a deeply colonial approach to the future of Gaza. 👇https://www.medact.org/2025/blogs/statement-on-gaza-ceasefire/
🚨 T-2 weeks until we host: Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World – an evening lecture, conversation and drinks reception in London, free and open to all!
Interested in learning more about the movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction? Join us ⬇️
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Interested in learning more about the movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction? Join us ⬇️
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World - Medact Calendar
We welcome Medact members, health workers, students, and particularly young campaigners as we reflect on the fight for a nuclear weapons free world.
www.medact.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🚨 T-2 weeks until we host: Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World – an evening lecture, conversation and drinks reception in London, free and open to all!
Interested in learning more about the movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction? Join us ⬇️
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Interested in learning more about the movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction? Join us ⬇️
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
REGISTER NOW! For this free online event, we’ll hear from health workers and organisers committed to naming the violence, challenging the limits of humanitarianism and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to liberation.
www.medact.org/event/palest...
www.medact.org/event/palest...
Palestine, Health and the Limits of Humanitarianism - Medact Calendar
Join us for a webinar on Palestine and the politics of humanitarianism, where we’ll explore the role of health workers in confronting the genocide in Gaza.
www.medact.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
REGISTER NOW! For this free online event, we’ll hear from health workers and organisers committed to naming the violence, challenging the limits of humanitarianism and standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their right to liberation.
www.medact.org/event/palest...
www.medact.org/event/palest...
Join us in London on Saturday 1st November at St. Ethelburga's Centre for an evening lecture with IPPNW co-president, Dr Carlos Umaña!
We welcome health workers, students and campaigners as we reflect on the fight for a nuclear weapons free world 🚫💣
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
We welcome health workers, students and campaigners as we reflect on the fight for a nuclear weapons free world 🚫💣
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Building a Nuclear Weapons Free World - Medact Calendar
We welcome Medact members, health workers, students, and particularly young campaigners as we reflect on the fight for a nuclear weapons free world.
www.medact.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Join us in London on Saturday 1st November at St. Ethelburga's Centre for an evening lecture with IPPNW co-president, Dr Carlos Umaña!
We welcome health workers, students and campaigners as we reflect on the fight for a nuclear weapons free world 🚫💣
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
We welcome health workers, students and campaigners as we reflect on the fight for a nuclear weapons free world 🚫💣
www.medact.org/event/nuclea...
Medact is recruiting a Fundraising Manager: Trusts & Grants! Join the fight for health justice. This is a part-time, fixed term contract, to help Medact secure essential funding over the next year. Applications close on 10th November. www.medact.org/2025/blogs/f...
Fundraising Manager: Trusts & Grants - Medact
Apply now to be Medact's Fundraising Manager.
www.medact.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Medact is recruiting a Fundraising Manager: Trusts & Grants! Join the fight for health justice. This is a part-time, fixed term contract, to help Medact secure essential funding over the next year. Applications close on 10th November. www.medact.org/2025/blogs/f...
Register to join this conversation we'll be part of on Wednesday evening! ⬇️
📢New event
We see growing hostility & racism in our politics and streets, climate breakdown across the globe, and ongoing war & genocide. Competition & militarism are not the answer.
Join our discussion on 08 October to share ideas for a counter-narrative.
rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/
We see growing hostility & racism in our politics and streets, climate breakdown across the globe, and ongoing war & genocide. Competition & militarism are not the answer.
Join our discussion on 08 October to share ideas for a counter-narrative.
rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/
October 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Register to join this conversation we'll be part of on Wednesday evening! ⬇️
In the past, we have previously campaigned by raising the voice of health workers in isolation – speaking on behalf of communities experiencing injustice. But that approach carries risks.
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/a...
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/a...
A growing movement for health justice - Medact
At Medact, we are committed to being a political home for the health community where everyone can come together to learn, grow and take action.
www.medact.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In the past, we have previously campaigned by raising the voice of health workers in isolation – speaking on behalf of communities experiencing injustice. But that approach carries risks.
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/a...
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/a...
BREAKING: Hundreds of health workers have written to The King’s Fund demanding they cut ties with Palantir, who are currently supplying the Israeli military with advanced AI warfare for use in Gaza. The King’s Fund are health washing one of the world’s most violent companies! 👇
October 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
BREAKING: Hundreds of health workers have written to The King’s Fund demanding they cut ties with Palantir, who are currently supplying the Israeli military with advanced AI warfare for use in Gaza. The King’s Fund are health washing one of the world’s most violent companies! 👇
🚨 The Abolitionist Approaches to Health group's monthly online meeting is tomorrow Wednesday 1st October, 6pm!
Come along to hear more about the campaign to end the Prevent Duty in the NHS, and for our next learning session with Dr Harshana Sangtani.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
Come along to hear more about the campaign to end the Prevent Duty in the NHS, and for our next learning session with Dr Harshana Sangtani.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – October Meeting - Medact Calendar
Join to discuss policing, criminalisation and securitisation practices within and beyond sites of healthcare.
www.medact.org
September 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🚨 The Abolitionist Approaches to Health group's monthly online meeting is tomorrow Wednesday 1st October, 6pm!
Come along to hear more about the campaign to end the Prevent Duty in the NHS, and for our next learning session with Dr Harshana Sangtani.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
Come along to hear more about the campaign to end the Prevent Duty in the NHS, and for our next learning session with Dr Harshana Sangtani.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...
"[We] need them to raise their own voices loudly and clearly against the genocide and our government’s complicity in it, against the systematic dismantling of the health system in Gaza..." - Fiona Godlee
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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...
www.bmj.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"[We] need them to raise their own voices loudly and clearly against the genocide and our government’s complicity in it, against the systematic dismantling of the health system in Gaza..." - Fiona Godlee
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Join @britishima.bsky.social on Wednesday 1st October at 7.30pm for an insightful webinar with Global Health BDS for Palestine, exploring the ethical, health, and humanitarian reasons behind a TEVA boycott.
britishima.org/event/webina...
britishima.org/event/webina...
Webinar: TEVA Boycott & Global Health BDS for Palestine | British Islamic Medical Association
Join us on Wednesday 1st October at 7.30pm for an insightful webinar with Global Health BDS for Palestine, exploring the ethical, health, and humanitarian reasons behind a TEVA boycott. Learn why heal...
britishima.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Join @britishima.bsky.social on Wednesday 1st October at 7.30pm for an insightful webinar with Global Health BDS for Palestine, exploring the ethical, health, and humanitarian reasons behind a TEVA boycott.
britishima.org/event/webina...
britishima.org/event/webina...
Abolitionist approaches to health show us a different path: one where care is truly universal, not conditional (on one’s legal status). One where we dismantle violent systems and build alternatives rooted in justice, equity and solidarity.
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/t...
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/t...
Towards abolishing borders and violence in healthcare - Medact
An abolitionist approach to health offers a vision where care is accessible to all, and violence no longer defines the systems that affect our wellbeing.
www.medact.org
September 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Abolitionist approaches to health show us a different path: one where care is truly universal, not conditional (on one’s legal status). One where we dismantle violent systems and build alternatives rooted in justice, equity and solidarity.
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/t...
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/t...
Today is the UN International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
🕊️ To commemorate the day, we are sharing a collage from our Nuclear Weapons Group member Bimal, who is currently pedalling from Hiroshima to Nagasaki for a peaceful world!
🕊️ To commemorate the day, we are sharing a collage from our Nuclear Weapons Group member Bimal, who is currently pedalling from Hiroshima to Nagasaki for a peaceful world!
September 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today is the UN International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
🕊️ To commemorate the day, we are sharing a collage from our Nuclear Weapons Group member Bimal, who is currently pedalling from Hiroshima to Nagasaki for a peaceful world!
🕊️ To commemorate the day, we are sharing a collage from our Nuclear Weapons Group member Bimal, who is currently pedalling from Hiroshima to Nagasaki for a peaceful world!
Hospitals bombed. Aid blocked. Health workers killed.
Read our new blog and join the emergency demo: Hands off the flotilla today!
📅 Friday 26th Sept
⏲️ 6pm
📍Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/g...
Read our new blog and join the emergency demo: Hands off the flotilla today!
📅 Friday 26th Sept
⏲️ 6pm
📍Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/g...
Gaza under siege, health solidarity across the globe - Medact
As we are entering a new era – built on the principles of health justice, collective care and solidarity – we will continue to campaign for Palestinian liberation.
www.medact.org
September 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hospitals bombed. Aid blocked. Health workers killed.
Read our new blog and join the emergency demo: Hands off the flotilla today!
📅 Friday 26th Sept
⏲️ 6pm
📍Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/g...
Read our new blog and join the emergency demo: Hands off the flotilla today!
📅 Friday 26th Sept
⏲️ 6pm
📍Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
www.medact.org/2025/blogs/g...
The wonderful Ben, Izzy and Jo will be speaking at our All Member Assembly on Friday 3rd October.
We can't wait to see you at Pelican House (or on Zoom). If you haven't registered, you can do so on our website👇
medact.org/event/ama2025/
We can't wait to see you at Pelican House (or on Zoom). If you haven't registered, you can do so on our website👇
medact.org/event/ama2025/
September 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The wonderful Ben, Izzy and Jo will be speaking at our All Member Assembly on Friday 3rd October.
We can't wait to see you at Pelican House (or on Zoom). If you haven't registered, you can do so on our website👇
medact.org/event/ama2025/
We can't wait to see you at Pelican House (or on Zoom). If you haven't registered, you can do so on our website👇
medact.org/event/ama2025/