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Dr David Widgery

This year is the 30th anniversary of the premature death of Dr David Widgery, a committed doctor, socialist and anti-racist campaigner. On 28 September 2022, a memorial meeting was held at St Ann’s Church in London’d East End. A video recording of the meeting is available here. Speakers include Dr Kambiz Boomla and Dr Anna […]

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Dr Philip D’Arcy Hart

Philip D’Arcy Hart was born in 1900. His father gave up a legal career to become a popular artist of the period. His mother was the daughter of a progressive Liberal MP for Whitechapel towards the end of the 19th Century. D’Arcy Hart qualified as a doctor in 1925, studying at Cambridge and University College […]

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The Alma Ata Declaration

In 1978 the WHO adopted the Alma Ata declaration, a seminal document which stated that economic and political policy are the major determinants of global health and wellbeing. It argued that inequality is unacceptable, and that people have the right and duty to participate in the planning and implementation of their health care. At the […]