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Articles by or about Docs Not Cops or the Patients Not Passports campaign
- No Borders in Healthcare – blog post by Darya Azarmi and Yajur Arora from Docs Not Cops University of Birmingham, 27th October 2021
- “Organise To Win: Advocating For Our Patients Means Speaking Up, Protesting and Organising” by Dr Jess Potter, Respiratory Doctor working in London and member of Docs Not Cops, Migrants Organise, 26th October 2021
- “Access to healthcare during a pandemic – a nurse’s perspective” by Kirit, a nurse in the NHS, Medact, 26th October 2021
- Free For All Forever: No To Privatisation in the NHS! by Alia Butt, Keep Our NHS Public, 23rd October 2021
- Sheffield man who nearly died after a stroke faces £100,000 NHS treatment bill, the Voice, 27 September 2021
- Southmead Hospital bosses have promised to look at how they treat migrant patients, BristolLive, 2nd December 2019
- ‘In a few years we could all be paying for care’: GP’s fears for the NHS as hospitals hand out bills, Newcastle Chronicle, 25th October, 2019
- Healthcare workers protest against charging for migrants in the NHS, Keep Our NHS Public, 25th October 2019
- Statement Concerning Upfront Charges & the Hostile Environment Policy in the NHS, Unis Resist Bordor Controls, 23rd Oct 2019
- Two Years On, NHS Hospitals Are Still Demanding Some Patients Pay Upfront for Life Saving Treatment, Izzi Whelan – final year medical student and an organising member of Docs Not Cops, Novara Media, 23rd Oct 2019
- Fighting for a fairer NHS, Giampietro Vianello Doretto and Harry Myles, Artefact Magazine, 23rd Oct 2019
- Doctors and nurses hold protest at QE Hospital against foreign patients being ‘forced’ to pay for treatment, Jane Tyler, Birmingham Mail, 23rd Oct 2019
- Ending the hostile environment in health: The responsibility of intellectuals, Dr Jess Potter – lung doctor, public health research and member of Docs Not Cops, Cost of Living blog, 22nd Oct 2019
- Another key Johnson claim on the NHS demolished, Docs Not Cops, openDemocracy, 22nd Oct 2019
- British politicians’ NHS hypocrisy laid bare today on the global stage, Docs Not Cops, openDemocracy, 23rd Sept 2019
- Docs Not Cops / Patients Not Passports, Wimbledon Labour Party, 25th July 2019
- Revealed: NHS under fire for steep increase in charging migrants for healthcare, Matty Edwards, The Bristol Cable, 22nd July 2019
- They Can’t Say They Didn’t Know, Akram Salhab, Migrants Organise, 11th July 2019
- I am your Doctor first, Dr Jess Potter, Migrants Organise, 5th July 2019
- NHS doctors are protesting the hostile environment – Bethan Stanton, Huck Magazine, 3rd July 2019
- Access to Healthcare for People with No Recourse to Public Funds, JustRight Scotland, 13th June 2019
- Patients Not Passports: How NHS Staff Are Fighting To Provide Healthcare In A Hostile Environment, Dr Kitty Worthing and James Skinner – Docs Not Cops campaigners, Public Sector Focus (pp. 30-31), May/June 2019
- Medics and residents at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, demand end to identity checks on overseas patients: ‘We are docs not cops’, Toby Porter, London News Online, 31st May 2019
- Calls for BRI to end ‘harrowing’ upfront hospital charges for migrants, Adam Postans, BristolLive, 30th May 2019
- Migrant charging in the NHS: how doctors can support patients when hospital care is denied, Ingrid Torjesen, BMJ, 29th May 2019
- How NHS staff are fighting back against the ‘hostile environment’, James Skinner and Akram Salhab, openDemocracy, 17th May 2019
- Transparency is needed on NHS charges for migrants and data sharing agreement, Kate O’Donnell, Ibrahim Abubakar, Rob Aldridge and 6 others, thebmjopinion, 13th May 2019
- Healthcare Groups Launch ‘Patients Not Passports’ To End Migrant Charges On The NHS, Jenn Selby, Rights Info, 1st May 2019
- ‘Reclaim Citizenship To Reclaim Our Human Rights’: Groups Call For End To Hostile Environment Policy, Jenn Selby, Rights Info, 30th April 2019
- New Patients Not Passports toolkit, Right to Remain, 10th April 2019
- NHS ‘hostile environment’ and charges limiting care to children of migrants in breach of UN pledges, doctors say, Alex Matthews-King, Independent, 15th March 2019
- NHS charges for migrants are dangerous and ineffective, say Bristol medics and midwives, Right to Remain News, 8th March 2019
- Don’t ask migrants to pay – the NHS was set up to serve us all, Samantha Wathen, Keep Our NHS Public blog, 12th February 2019
- As A Nurse, I’m Not Surprised The Government Warped Facts About NHS Migrant Fraud, James Skinner, HuffPostUK blog, 27th November 2018
- Why healthcare for all is a feminist issue, Feminist Fightback, openDemocracy, 7th November 2018
- Upfront NHS charges one year on – 6 reasons why they harm us all, Ed Jones, openDemocracy OurNHS, 22nd October 2018
- Protest against immigration checks on patients takes place outside Mile End Hospital, Basit Mahmood, East London Advertiser, 13th September 2018
- Fury as London’s biggest NHS trust demands patients prove they have right to free care, Ross Lydal, London Evening Standard, 12th September 2018
- How the hostile environment crept into UK schools, hospitals and homes, Simon Usborne, The Guardian, 1st August 2018
- NHS staff return Ebola medals in protest over migrants being denied NHS healthcare, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 23rd July 2018
- National Health Service’s 70th anniversary inspires protests across UK, Alice McCool, CNN, 6th July 2018
- NHS data-sharing U-turn is welcome – but more to do to scrap the ‘hostile environment’, Peter Pannier – Docs Not Cops campaigner, openDemocracy, 11th May 2018
- The NHS has stopped sharing data with the Home Office – now it must halt passport checks on patients, Evan Luckes – nurse and Docs Not Cops campaigner,
- Excluding migrants from the NHS undermines its founding principles, Dr Neal Russell – Docs Not Cops campaigner, Red Pepper, 8th April 2018
- Medical ethics: UK uses data from doctors to find migrants, news24, 1st April 2018
- Corbyn writes to May about man’s £54,000 NHS cancer bill, Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian, 18th March 2018
- The NHS must remain free at the point of use and based on need – not ability to pay, Docs Not Cops, Labour List, 17th March 2018
- As a doctor, I can see that denying NHS care to immigrants is inhumane, Dr Kitty Worthing, Docs Not Cops campaigner, The Guardian Opinion, 12th March 2018
- Home Office tells GP to deliver deportation notice to patient with mental health problem, Alex Matthews-Kind, The Independent, 23rd February 2018
- Who has to pay for the NHS and when? Dr Jess Potter – Docs Not Cops campaigner, The Conversation, 6th February 2018
- Blocking migrants’ access to the NHS is a way of privatising it, Docs Not Cops, Red Pepper, 18th November 2017
- Doctors and patients are fighting back against new rules to restrict migrants’ access to the NHS, Simon Childs, New Internationalist, December 2017
- Protect access to NHS on basis of need, Docs Not Cops, Keep Our NHS Public, 2nd November 2019
- A&E Nurse Describes ‘Inhumane’ Way Woman With Sepsis Was Treated ‘Due To Anti-Health Tourism Policy’, Jack Sommers, HuffPostUK, 25th October 2017
- I’m a junior doctor – this is why the new NHS immigration checks are bad for everyone, Timesh Pillay – Docs Not Cops campaigner, Prospect, 23rd October 2017
- Today marks the day when a founding principle of the NHS is destroyed – and doctors like me are being told to help, Dr Jessica Potter – Docs Not Cops campaigner, The Independent, 23rd October 2017
- NHS charging rules: Doctors and nurses accuse Government of ‘deliberate cruelty’ with upfront payments and ID checks, May Bulman, The Independent, 23rd October 2017
- Healthcare is a human right: migrant solidarity in the NHS, Peter Pannier – Docs Not Cops member, New Socialist, 29th September 2017
- Why I’m standing with pregnant women and resisting NHS passport checks, Dr Joanna Dobbin, Red Pepper, 28th September 2017
- Patients Not Passports!, Right to Remain News, 27th September 2017
- Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ turns doctors into immigration guards, Natalie Bloomer, politics.co.uk, 25th September 2017
- Labour must end May’s ‘hostile environment’ for migrants in the NHS, Docs Not Cops, openDemocracy OurNHS, 23rd September 2017
- Sick schoolchildren and women seeking abortions could be denied healthcare under new immigration charging rules, May Bulman, The Independent, 20th September 2017
- NHS letter demands eight-day-old baby provide identity documents to prove right to free healthcare, May Bulman, The Independent, 19th September
- UK’s charity workers forced to be proxy border guards, Doctors of the World, 19th September 2017
- School nurses could be forced to deny migrant children treatment under new rules, Natalie Bloomer, politics.co.uk, 19th September 2017
- Big Brother state: How May’s obsession with immigration turned Britain into a surveillance state, Natalie Bloomer, 11th September 2017
- Migrants with mental health needs will be hit hardest, S Steele, British Medical Journal, 8th September 2017
- Show me the money: who will have to pay for NHS treatment [pdf], Radhika Holmstrom, Commentary, the Royal College of Physicians membership magazine, August 2017
- Pregnant women to be asked to show ID at hospital appointments in new Queen’s Hospital trial scheme, Matthew Clemenson, Ilford Recorder, 4th September 2017
- How charities helped to deport homeless migrants, Gracie Mae Bradley, The Guardian, 22nd August 2017
- This NHS form is making people scared to see a doctor, Shyamantha Asokan, Doctors of the World, 10th August, 2017
- A Hospital Has Apologised For Asking Pregnant Women If They Are “Economic Migrants”, Laura Silver, BuzzFeed News, 8th August 2017
- Grenfell Tower survivors ‘must have total immigration amnesty’, Ben Quinn, The Observer, 15th July 2017
- Migrant activists disrupt the Department of Health, Erin Dexter – Docs Not Cops campaigner, openDemocracy, 7th April 2017
- Docs Not Cops take action against border enforcement in the NHS, Evan Luckes – Docs Not Cops campaigner, Right to Remain, 7th April 2017
- Passport checks for patients is an abandonment of NHS principles
- The NHS is interfering with immigrants’ visa applications if they don’t pay up their hospital debts, by Erin Dexter – Docs Not Cops campaigner, The Independent, 7th April 2017
- Docs Not Cops take action against border enforcement in the NHS by Evan Luckes – Docs Not Cops campaign, Right to Remain, 7th April 2017
- o Patient is Illegal: Fighting Borders in the NHS by Erin Dexter, NovaraMedia, 6th April 2017
- Docs not Cops: new policy transforms NHS workers into border guards by
- Patients Not Passports Action, Migrants Organise, 5th April 2019
- Pregnant women frightened away from healthcare in the UK, Nick Harvey, Doctors of the World, 20th March 2017
- This is how nurses like me will be resisting passport checks on our wards, by Evan Luckes, The Independent, 16th February 2017
- Mentally ill patients being referred to police for ‘de-radicalisation’, by Ala Abbas, The Muslim News, 30th December 2016
- These Ill & Pregnant Women In The UK Can’t Access Healthcare, Charlotte England, Refinery29, 28th December 2016
- NHS referred 420 staff and patients over ‘radicalisation’, Ruth Evans, 5 Live Investigates, 20th November 2016
- Making the NHS a “hostile environment” for migrants demeans our country, by Erin Dexter, OurNHS openDemocracy, 24 October 2016
- A call on St George’s Hospital Trust to respect migrants’ rights to care, open letter signed by Docs Not Cops members, MedAct, 24th October 2016
- Treat, Don’t Police! Fighting the Immigration Act in the NHS, by Docs Not Cops, NovaraMedia, 19th August 2016
- Treat, don’t police, by Ruth Atkinson, OurNHS openDemocracy, 5th August 2016
- Brexit and the NHS – why we all must fight the racist discourse, by Ruth Atkinson, OurNHS openDemocracy, 1st July 2016
- BMA votes against charges for migrants, by Nick Evans, RS21, 25th June 2016
- Open letter calling on the BMA to denounce the Immigration Act in healthcare and recognise the value that migrants bring to the NHS, by Docs Not Cops with signatories from additional organisations and individuals, The British Medical Journal (BMJ), 21st June 2016
- “Docs Not Cops” – Migrant solidarity at the heart of healthcare fightback, by Sophie Lewis, UnevenEarth, 17th March 2016
- Pregnant women bear brunt of government’s clampdown on ‘migrant’ NHS care, by Rayah Feldman, OurNHS openDemocracy, 4th March 2016
- Immigration Act 2014 and the slow dismantling of the NHS, by Reem Abu-Hayyeh, Institute of Race Relations, 23rd April 2015
Articles about restricting access to NHS treatment on the basis of migration status
- Migrant health is public health: a call for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, The Lancet, 1st March 2021
- Migrant health: Trusts asked GPs to identify whether patients they refer are eligible for free NHS care, BMJ, 17th Oct 2019
- The UK government’s “hostile environment” is harming public health, Sophie Weller and Rob Aldridge, BMJopinion, 23rd July 2019
- ‘Inglan is a bitch’: hostile NHS charging regulations contravene ethical principles of the medical profession, Josephine Reynolds and Caroline Mitchell, BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics, 22nd July 2019
- Doctors as border police: what happened to ‘first, do no harm’?, Anita Berlin and Victoria Koski-Karrell, The Conversation, 18th July 2019
- NHS fees: ‘Couple couldn’t take baby’s body home’, Catrin Nye, BBC News/Victoria Derbyshire programme, 10th July 2019
- ‘I don’t want my mum to die on my sofa’, Catrin Nye, 13 minute clip from Victoria Derbyshire programme, 10th July 2019
- Minister attacked for refusing to act on evidence that overseas patients are dying because of upfront NHS charges, Rob Merrick, The Independent, 7th July 2019
- Scrap upfront NHS charges for migrants, says BMA, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 25th June 2019
- British children in poverty denied basic benefits by home office, Diane Taylor and Aamna Mohdin, The Guardian, 13th June 2019
- Transparency is needed on NHS charges for migrants and data sharing agreements, BMJ, O’Donnell, Abubakar, Aldridge, and others, BMJ, 13th May 2019
- ‘Cruel and inhumane’: Home Office threatens woman in coma with forcible deportation, May Bulman and Maya Yagoda, The Independent, 12th May 2019
- Anti-FGM campaigner who was denied NHS cancer care dies, Diane Taylor, The Guardian, 29th April 2019
- Upfront fees ‘deterring immigrants from seeking NHS care’, Chaminda Jayanetti, The Guardian, 18th April 2019
- Ministers accused of cover-up over migrant health reports, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 3rd April 2019
- NHS trusts call in the bailiffs to chase ineligible patients’ debts, Chaminda Jayanetti, The Observer, 23rd March 2019
- My patient avoided NHS treatment for three years because he didn’t want to become another Windrush scandal victim, Dolin Bhagawati, The Independent, 17th February 2019
- Migrants wrongly told to pay for NHS care upfront, minister admits, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 17th February 2019
- It’s not just medical staff and medicines that Brexit threatens, but the core principle at the heart of our NHS, David Rowland and Tamara Hervey, openDemocracy, 7th February 2019
- Dying man hit with £32k bill for end of life care at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Josh Layton, Birmingham Live, 29th Jan 2019
- Dying man given bill for tens of thousands of pounds for NHS treatment, Sarah Johnson The Guardian, 22nd Jan 2019
- Plan to double NHS charges for migrants is ‘double taxation’, says charity CEO, Holly Pyne, talkRADIO, Jan 12th 2019
- Cancer patient died after NHS demanded £30,000 for treatment, Chaminda Jayanetti, The Guardian, 13th November 2018
- Charge for migrants to use NHS to double to £400, government announces, Ben Kentish, The Independent, 11th October 2018
- NHS protest: how ‘hostile’ migrant charging policy came into being, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 23rd July 2018
- 8,900 checks on NHS ‘health tourists’ find just 50 liable to pay, Ross Lydal, London Evening Standard, 29th May 2018
- Pregnant Brit forced to prove nationality by NHS after taking Polish husband’s name, Nicole Morley, Metro, 21st October 2017
- Heavily pregnant British woman stressed after being challenged by hospital over citizenship, Serina Sandhu, iNews, 18th October 2017
- Pregnant women without legal status ‘too afraid to seek NHS care’ by Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian, 20th March 2017
- How do you keep news of dozens more A&Es closures off the front pages? by Rachel Clarke, OurNHS openDemocracy, 7th February 2017
- NHS hospitals to charge overseas patients for non-urgent care, by Alice Ross, The Guardian, 6th February 2017
- “The whole agitation has a nasty taste” – Nye Bevan on so-called ‘health tourism’ by Caroline Molloy, OurNHS openDemocracy, 6th February 2017
- NHS passport proposals are just more grubby politics from May and Hunt, by Kailash Chand, OurNHS openDemocracy, 22nd November 2016
- Migrant women face £6,000 birth bill under ‘health tourism’ laws, Maeve Shearlaw, The Guardian, 4th February 2016
- The NHS and dog whistle politics, by Kambiz Boomla, OurNHS openDemocracy, 15th October 2013
- Experts oppose migrant healthcare proposals – will government listen? by Juan Camilo, OurNHS openDemocracy, 12th September 2013
- Migrants, “fairness” and the NHS, by Juan Camilo, OurNHS openDemocracy, 29th July 2013
- Healthcare in Britain – first they came for the immigrants – NHS and public sector trade unionists speak out in defence of universal health care, by Greg Dropkin and Karen Reissman, OurNHS openDemocracy, 8th July 2013
Articles in languages other than English
- 打擊「醫療旅遊」英國醫生先查身份後看病, Epoch Times, 11th November 2017
- Docs not cops, un collectif britannique contre les discriminations dans la santé, interview de Stacey, militante au sein du collectif, November 2016