Medact

This Saturday 7th March, @cnduk.bsky.social and @stwc.bsky.social have called a national demonstration in central London: Hands off Iran: Stop Trump’s Wars.

Medact statement on US and Israel’s attacks on Iran - Medact Medact stands in solidarity with people in Iran, Lebanon, and across the region being subject to egregious acts of violence.

We call on the health community to take action, speak loudly against actions of the US and Israel, and call on the UK government to act to end the perpetration of this violence.

www.medact.org/2026/stateme...

NHS mental health trust withdraws from counter-terror police programme Birmingham-based trust says programme that enabled police to access medical information 'no longer considered to align to strategic priorities'

Medact research manager Hil Aked welcomed the Birmingham trust’s decision to withdraw from the programme, describing it as “unethical and Islamophobic”.

“Mental health workers should be providing patients with care, not spying on them for police.”

www.middleeasteye.net/news/nhs-men...

Unlearning Medical Education - Medact Calendar This event will feature group discussions and a conversation between Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan and Dr Jo Hartland about their experiences of medical learning.

Join us on Wednesday 25 February at 7 pm on Zoom for a transformative workshop on deconstructing oppressive systems in medical education and exploring new paths toward health justice. www.medact.org/event/unlear...

Big news! @bma.org.uk now advising doctors not to engage with Palantir's NHS data platform! They say there must be a "complete break from Palantir technologies in the NHS", due to the company's track record, e.g. with ICE, and the risk to patient trust. www.bmj.com/content/392/...

In Solidarity – From UK Health Workers to US Health Workers Resisting ICE - Medact In offering our grief and solidarity, we re-commit ourselves to standing with all our fellow health workers resisting fascism, from Minneapolis to Gaza.

To our fellow health workers, and all those showing us the real meaning of community care in the USA: we stand with you because we know our struggles are the same.

www.medact.org/2026/blogs/f...

VACANCIES: We’re recruiting Trustees, Treasurer, and Chair of the Board - Medact Are you passionate about health justice? Medact is seeking new Trustees to help oversee our governance and support our work.

We are looking for several new Trustees, a new Chair of the Board of Trustees and a new Treasurer to help oversee our governance and support our work. If you share our vision and passion, why not join our Board and help us fight for health justice? www.medact.org/2026/jobs/va...

Healthcare Workers Freed a Patient From ICE – You Can Do the Same When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents brought a detainee to a California hospital in 2025, they didn’t know they would leave empty-handed. Using capacity they built over months of orga...

“Our real demand is that we should not even allow ICE in our hospital at all,” Morgan emphasized. www.blackrosefed.org/hospital-org...

NEW Substack blog by the excellent NHS Analysts Together - part of the No Palantir in the NHS campaign.

Recommended reading for campaigners interested in Palantir, the Federated Data Platform and the NHS
nhsdataanalyststogether.substack.com/p/understand...
@medact.bsky.social @justtreatment.org

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

@goodlawproject.bsky.social and @justtreatment.org set up a tool to help us check whether our local NHS trusts are adopting Palantir's software and, if so, to send an email calling on them to reject its use. Let's start emailing!

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

An important read: shado-mag.com/articles/can...

Get dangerous tech out of our NHS! “Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them,” Alex Karp (Co-founder and CEO o...

Palantir is not welcome in the NHS! Sign the petition and read the evidence! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ge...

CALL TO ACTION - Send this message to 5 friends in Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland

NHS England has demanded that hospitals and NHS Trusts in Leicester use Palantir’s software to process our patient data and the roll out has already started. But with help, they can resist!

📢 Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration
⏰ Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📍 Birmingham City Centre

Join us in solidarity with ALL migrants, people seeking asylum & refugees.

Follow for updates @regulariseuk.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @migrantsrights.bsky.social

Police tech doesn't predict crime. It predicts policing.

Fed on flawed police data, so-called 'crime-predicting' tech automates racism and discrimination against overpoliced communities.

The Safety Not Surveillance coalition spread the word.

Sign up ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/join-fight-a...

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – December Meeting - Medact Calendar Join to discuss policing, criminalisation and securitisation practices within and beyond sites of healthcare.

🗓️ Join the Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group's meeting this week - Wednesday 3rd December, 6-7.30pm!

Open to health workers & health justice campaigners interested in resisting policing and securitisation practices within and beyond healthcare.
www.medact.org/event/abolit...

"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."

🚨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...

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.

There’ll also be a Q&A, giving you the chance to ask questions and reflect on how health workers can take action in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.

Share with colleagues, comrades and networks who care about justice, health and liberation.

www.medact.org/event/palest...

Together, we’ll unpack:
⚕️ The politics of humanitarianism
🇬🇧 The British state’s complicity
✊🏽 How health workers can move from charity to liberation

We'll be joined by Layth Hanbali, Ghassan Abu Sittah, Amira Nimerawi, Hannah Caller and James Smith.

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.

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...

Abolitionist Approaches to Health Group – November Meeting - Medact Calendar Join to discuss policing, criminalisation and securitisation practices within and beyond sites of healthcare.

🗓️ 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...

🚨📣 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 🥂⬇️

Homes for Health - Medact We're bringing together a movement of health workers united in a shared vision to reclaim our homes for people and the planet

📢 Rent is eating us alive and destroying our health.

It’s time to cap rents and expand social housing. We need rent controls, secure tenancies and a national strategy to rebalance the housing system.
www.medact.org/project/home...

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

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...

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 🏡

A fantastic opportunity for ant-nuclear activists to meet up and learn more about the movement to abolish WMD, in London on 01 November.

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.

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.

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/