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📢 Don't Bank on the Bomb UK is keen to hear from you! If your interests lie in social media, outreach, research, or something else entirely, there are many ways you can support the campaign. Come along to our open working group meeting to get more involved: www.medact.org/event/dbotb-...

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Last weekend our #PatientsNotPassports organisers and community came together to learn and plan for the road ahead. We're fighting for the universal right to healthcare regardless of immigration status. No Borders in the #NHS! We are #PatientsNotPassports ➡️ patientsnotpassports.co.uk

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Join Medact bloc on Saturday 7th June! Register now! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 www.medact.org/event/welfar...

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Research from @medact.bsky.social shows healthcare professionals regularly see patients living in cold and damp homes. A fully funded Warm Homes Plan and a social tariff for energy is a smart investment in our health and happiness.

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What a weekend💜 @migrantsorganise.bsky.social Huge love and thanks to everyone who joined us for the Patients Not Passports National Gathering 2025 – a beautiful few days of learning, sharing, planning, dancing, and building power together✊

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💬 “Ultimately, abolition is a verb, a practice.” What an uplifting weekend at the #PatientsNotPassports National Gathering. ⚡️ An absolute joy to connect with organisers from across the country, all working towards the same goal: the abolition of borders in the NHS, once and for all. 🧵

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Join this excellent webinar tomorrow with our friends at @medact.bsky.social on military spending and welfare cuts. CAAT Research Coordinator @smhwpf.bsky.social on the panel.

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🚨No More Austerity 2.0 – Join Medact Bloc🚨 Rising costs of living. Overworked public services. And now, more cuts to welfare, social care, and support for disabled people. Meanwhile, military spending is increasing. We say WELFARE, NOT WARFARE! www.medact.org/event/welfar...

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Exclusive: A survey of 1000s of health workers finds that the majority believe making rents more affordable would reduce the strain on NHS. Most also say that they often see children with health problems made worse by insecure housing: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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🚨 @medact.bsky.social's new report shows the pressure shoddy housing puts on our health service 🏠 Funding home improvements to stop damp and mould is a good investment in all of our health, happiness and NHS. Let's fight fuel poverty and avoidable illness www.medact.org/2025/resourc...

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Recommendations to the government include: build good-quality social housing; reform right to buy; start a mass retrofitting programme; implement the Decent Homes Standard and Awaab’s Law; and implement rent controls. www.medact.org/2025/resourc... @medact.bsky.social

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🚨 Speakers announced 🚨 In less than a week, we’re hosting a key discussion on the UK’s welfare cuts and the impact of war budgets. As living costs soar, the Government is slashing welfare & social care to fund military spending. 💸⚔️ Register today! www.medact.org/event/who-be...

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Whilst a U-turn on WFP cuts is welcome, only a full reversal will rebuild trust. If the Govt truly cares about public health, it must back long-term solutions like a National Energy Guarantee. We need warm homes—not warm words. :house::snowflake: #EnergyForAll www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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🚨Reports in the FT suggest that Labour could axe its £13.2bn Warm Homes Plan are deeply alarming. "Any dilution of this Plan will have long term consequences." [1/3]

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The killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics in Rafah wasn't an accident. It’s part of a broader strategy: targeting those who save lives in Gaza. “To administer care is to increase the likelihood that people can survive and remain in Gaza” writes our trustee Dr James Smith

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⏰ Just two more days to add your name to our open letter, calling on 5 major UK banks to divest from nuclear weapons manufacturers!🚫💰💣 Sign the open letter ⬇️ #GDAMS #DontBankOnTheBomb www.medact.org/2025/actions...

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✊Solidarity fights fascism! From the rise of anti-migrant rhetoric to attacks on health workers – the far-right is gaining ground across the UK... but so is resistance. www.medact.org/2025/blogs/r...

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Through the #GDAMS campaign, Medact and Don't Bank on the Bomb UK are standing with movements around the world demanding that public and private money stop funding war and weapons of mass destruction. Add your name to our open letter ✍️ www.medact.org/2025/actions...

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📣 As part of Global Days of Action On Military Spending, Don't Bank on the Bomb UK is calling on Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Natwest & Standard Chartered to stop choosing profit over people, & end the financing of nuclear weapons. Add your name! #GDAMS2025 www.medact.org/2025/actions...

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"Almost three in five households reported at least one member developing a respiratory condition since moving to Nags Head, likely related to widespread mould and damp on the estate." While specific, this report provides a window into the wider housing and health crisis.

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🚨 TONIGHT! Join Don’t Bank on the Bomb UK's next network meeting 🚫💰💣 We'll hear from Max from @banktrack.bsky.social about the illusive investment policies of commercial banks, & how we can change them to align with ethical commitments. Tues 22nd April, 6.30pm ⬇️ www.medact.org/event/dbotb-...

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📣 Join us for our next Don’t Bank on the Bomb UK network meeting with BankTrack on Tues 22nd April at 6.30pm! Max Hammer will join us to delve into the investment policies of our commercial banks and how to change them to align with ethical commitments. Sign up! www.medact.org/event/dbotb-...

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“Plague of mould and damp” at Peabody’s east London Nags Head estate, says new report The shocking report comes as another group of tenants in east London start a service charge strike in response to Hackney Council’s failings. Tomorrow – Tuesday April 15th - health justice group Medact will…

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@nagsheadestate.bsky.social on the news last night + today. A huge shout out to @kwajo.bsky.social for saying it how it is. The policies of the last decades have created a housing situation that harms our health but just as these decisions were made, they can be unmade.

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🚨 On an estate in Tower Hamlets, 95% of residents had visible mould in their homes. 🏘️ Big Issue covered the conditions on the Nags Head estate more than a year ago as tenants fought back against their housing association, Peabody. A new report says little has changed. ⬇️ buff.ly/mx6ps5w

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NEW REPORT NAGS HEAD ESTATE: TENANTS' EXPERIENCES OF UNHEALTHY HOMES. Written by Medact & Nags Head Tenants Association with support from @disrightsuk.bsky.social www.medact.org/2025/resourc...

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“Our health doesn’t begin in hospitals or clinics – it begins in our homes. This report shows alarmingly high rates of ill health of tenants. This is not an issue isolated to this estate but a systemic one.” Read more here: www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/london-...

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Widespread mould. Damp. Dangerous neglect. Tenants are getting sick — and enough is enough. We will continue to organise in solidarity with tenants at the Nags Head estate who are leading an inspiring campaign for safe, healthy and accessible homes 🔥 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lorraine and Fatima, residents of the Nags Head estate, and Medact member Izzy, talk about the devastating toll the landlord's neglect is taking on residents’ physical and mental health, on Radio BBC London this morning.

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📢 Join us for our next Homes for Health Network meeting! Wed 23rd April | 6.30pm | Online. Hear from our network members on how housing and health research is holding landlords and the government to account. Come along and build the movement for healthy homes! www.medact.org/event/hfh-ne...

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While public services are underfunded, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, NatWest and Standard Chartered have provided $30.5 billion to the nuclear weapons industry, fueling global instability, environmental destruction and the growing threat of nuclear war. www.medact.org/2025/actions...

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"Disability justice is health justice. Economic justice is public health." Read our latest blog 'The Spring Statement is a Public Health Failure' now: www.medact.org/2025/blogs/s...

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