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Keeping nuclear weapons is a high-risk gamble – Letter in the Telegraph
To coincide with the launch of new Medact report ‘A safer world – Britain’s harmful dependence on nuclear weapons’ on Tuesday 25th July 2017, leading UK health professionals wrote a letter in The Telegraph reiterating the international significance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and calling for renewed public debate on Britain’s continued possession of nuclear…
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Healthy Air
Health professionals treat the impacts of air pollution on a daily basis. The recent report Every Breath We Take, by the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health and The Royal College of Physicians, concluded that: “Each year in the UK, around 40,000 deaths are attributable to exposure to outdoor air pollution which plays a…
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Medact Manchester campaign to save the Salford Royal Hospital kitchen
Background The Salford Royal Hospital, part of the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, is an acute hospital with 839 beds. Whilst patient catering was provided in-house and well rated by both patients and staff, the kitchen was reported to be in need of complete refurbishment. On the 2nd February 2016, the Trust decided to put…
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Better Medical Care in Immigrant Detention Centres
Following a meeting organised by Medact with the generous assistance of the Royal Society of Medicine, of seven doctors working in immigration detention centres and six from voluntary organisations produced a consensus statement for dissemination.
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Immigration Act Strategic Workshop
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 Group. Medact also acts as the host for the EWG website dedicated to ensuring a strong response Government Consultation. Medact Strategic Workshop On Tuesday 25th March…