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What Medical Justice has achieved so far |
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Written by Emma Ginn
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With no paid staff and no funding, Medical Justice has achieved a lot in it’s 18 months existence, demonstrating a dynamic, dedicated and agile membership.
Some examples ; • Handled more than 500 patients in detention
• Conducted more than 125 medical visits into immigration detention centres
• Written over 100 MLRs, professional statements and letters
• 75% of patients released from detention after Medical Justice intervention
• Literature for detainees includes "Know Your Medical Rights" leaflet
• Successfully lobbied for HM Inspector of Prisons (HMIP) Inquiry into healthcare at Yarl's Wood
• HMIP inquiry findings echoed all of Medical Justice’s main objectives
• Meeting and Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR)
• A number of Home Office policy changes that make immigration detention less harmful
• Influenced registration of detention centre healthcare providers with the Healthcare Commission
• Medical Justice articles in the British Medical Journal
• Recent Media coverage includes - Channel 4 News, Radio 4, articles in the New Stateman and Guardian.
• Over 300 Medical Justice members
• Website and news-service
• A London office and Medical Justice groups in Oxford and Kent
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 January 2008 )
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