House Keeping and Formalities • Roll call • New branches • Voting rights • Adoption of the minutes of the SGA • To adopt the financial report for the year 2008-2009 • To adopt the National Committee budget for the year 2009-2010 with the proviso that the National Committee will report back with an updated budget fully accessible to the network • To adopt the branch fee categories for the year 2009-2010 • To ratify the positions of Secretary, Vice president External Affairs, Publicity, and Communications Director 2009-2010. Report back on mandated small working
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House Keeping and Formalities
• Roll call• New branches • Voting rights• Adoption of the minutes of the SGA• To adopt the financial report for the year 2008-2009• To adopt the National Committee budget for the year 2009-2010 with the proviso that the National Committee will report back with an updated budget fully accessible to the network
• To adopt the branch fee categories for the year 2009-2010• To ratify the positions of Secretary, Vice president External Affairs, Publicity, and Communications Director 2009-2010.• Report back on mandated small working group• To discuss the proposed campaigns for 2009/2010
Item 1 – Proposed by Defend Primary Healthcare Campaign (DPH)
Proposal of Campaign name change:
Proposal to change the name of the ‘Defend Primary Healthcare campaign’ to ‘Medsin Entitlement campaign’.
Rationale:
It seems increasingly unlikely that the Government will pursue its original plans to extend the 2004 charging regulations for overseas visitors to primary care. A name change from DPH to Entitlement would therefore better reflect the campaign and its activities.
Amendments:
Medsin Healthcare Entitlement Campaign
Proposer doesn’t accept
Alternative Motions:
Healthcare Entitlement Campaign
Medsin’s Healthcare Entitlement Campaign
Medsin Entitlement campaign
Amendments:
Medsin Healthcare Entitlement Campaign
Proposer doesn’t accept
Alternative Motions:
Healthcare Entitlement
Proposed by Glasgow
No seconder
Alternative motion falls
Medsin’s Healthcare Entitlement Campaign
Proposed by Manchester 7
Seconded by St Andrews
Medsin Entitlement campaign
Original Motion 8 Original Motion passes by relative majority
Abstain 8
Proposed by:
Seconded by:
Direct Negatives:
Amendments:
Result:
Item 1 – Proposed by Defend Primary Healthcare Campaign (DPH)
Item 1b – Motion Proposed by DPH
Proposal of Motion
Medsin resolves to let the Defend Primary Healthcare campaign continue to speak on behalf of Medsin when it comes to matters concerning limits to entitlements to NHS care for vulnerable migrant communties in the UK.
This autumn and winter is likely to be a busy period for the campaign again. The Department of Health and the Home Office carried out a joint review of the rules governing foreign nationals’ access to free National Health Services in England. UKBA and DH will consult publicly on the conclusions of the review in the autumn.
Furthermore Adam Hundt and Pierce Glynn have decided to appeal the April 2009 ruling which may or may not proceed over the next few months.
To be effective we need to be able to respond to developments as soon as we hear about them and whilst they are still newsworthy. The campaign has been effective so far, with favourable media coverage. We would be grateful if you could trust us to speak on your behalf over this important period.
Proposed by: Medsin Entitlement Campaign
Seconded by: Crossing Borders
Direct Negatives:
Amendments:
Result: Motion passes nemo contra
Item 1b – Motion Proposed by DPH
Item 2 - Proposed by StopAids
6. Campaigns 6.2 Recognition of Campaigns Proposed addition to bylaw 6.2.2.1 and renumber accordingly
Currently reads as: Campaigns other than the priority campaigns will share one vote between them.
Proposed Addition
A campaign can apply for full voting rights at a general assembly; it will not have additional voting rights if elected as a priority campaign.
Rationale:Active campaigns should be permanently and democratically represented within Medsin.
Original: A campaign can apply for full voting rights at a general assembly; it will not have additional voting rights if elected as a priority campaign.
Proposed by: StopAIDS
Seconded by: SKIP
Direct Negatives:
Amendments: Proposer and seconder accept.A campaign can apply for full voting rights on a yearly basis at a general assembly; it will not have additional voting rights if elected as a priority campaign.
Result:Motion passes nemo contra
Item 2 - Proposed by StopAids
Item 3 - Proposed by StopAidsProposal
To add Student Stop AIDS to the list of Permanent votes:
Currently, activities within the large number of Stop AIDS Societies are both project and campaign. For example teaching in schools occurs in both Newcastle and Sheffield.
It is the Medsin coordinator’s role to represent Medsin to over 80 trade unions and NGOS who form the Stop AIDS consortium. Medsin is recognized as an NGO within this coalition. Further the Medsin coordinator is a key member of the Stop AIDS campaign team, a group of about 10 NGOs campaigners. However Stop AIDS does not have reciprocal voting rights within Medsin.
Projects have to have an active project at 20% all branches: Active Student Stop AIDS societies exist in 12 universities where there is a Medsin branch: Sheffield , KCL, UCL , Manchester, Nottingham, Glasgow, Brighton, Bristol, Newcastle, Oxford, Cambridge, Barts and the London, Exeter, This is 30% of Medsin branches.
Proposed by: Stop AIDS
Seconded by: SKIP
Direct Negatives:
Amendments:
Result: Motion passes nemo contra
Item 3 - Proposed by StopAids
Guidance Statement:
For Medsin to join the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC) movement.
Rationale:The UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC) is a movement of young people and youth organisations from across the UK working to ensure an equitable and effective global climate deal in Copenhagen (UN Climate Change negotiations) and a safe energy future for all. They seek to inspire young people to act on climate change by training, supporting and empowering young people to carry out their own youth climate initiatives.
By bringing together young people from different backgrounds they wish to demonstrate that youth are building a cohesive youth climate movement which both cares about and demands action on climate change.Climate change is a pressing health issue, as demonstrated by among other sources the Lancet report on Climate Change and Health. Joining UKYCC will allow Medsin to communicate the message it wants about climate change and receive the many supportive resources and initiatives UKYCC has to offer.
Item 4 – Proposed by National Committee:
Item 4 – Proposed by National Committee:
Proposed by: National Committee
Seconded by: Leicester
Direct Negatives:
Amendments:
Result: Motion passes nemo contra
Item 5 – Proposed by Campaigns TeamMotion: To mandate the Medsin National Committee to work with others in the network to develop a manifesto of ‘Medsin asks’. This manifesto should include input from a range of people within the Medsin network, including both projects and campaigns.
The manifesto should be ratified by the voting members before being utilised.
Rationale:We believe that the upcoming UK General Elections provide an important opportunity to ask important questions of our politicians. Much of the work that Medsin does – both project and campaigns – deserves to be highlighted to the Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) for the upcoming General Election. The upcoming General Election will be, for many Medsinners, the first General Election in which they are eligible to vote. The development of a manifesto document would facilitate Medsinners in making informed votes, as they will be aided in finding out what the PPCs in their constituency believe about the issues which matter most to them.The Campaigns Team has started initial work on the manifesto from a campaigns perspective, although would like to see input and ownership of the manifesto from across the network – particularly from projects. It is suggested that the manifesto could be used at ‘Question Time’ style events to make these asks directly to the PPCs. Note: the organisation of ‘Question Time’ style events in no way contravenes charity law (which does regulate some aspects of activity involving political parties); many charities such as Oxfam have held similar events in the past
Proposed by: Campaigns Team
Seconded by: Medsin Entitlement Campaign
Direct Negatives:
Amendments:
Result: Motion passes nemo contra
Item 5 – Proposed by Campaigns Team
Item 6 – Proposed by Campaigns Team Policy Statement:
Medsin believes a lack of access to clean and effective water and sanitation to be an abuse of the right to the highest attainable standard of health. Limited access to water or sanitation prevents sustainable development in health, education and people’s livelihoods. Furthermore, this crisis affects most of all upon the poorest communities around the world.
Medsin supports a global framework for action by governments, donors and organisations in which water and sanitation is afforded the priority it requires and deserves.
Rationale:Water and sanitation are amongst the most important global health issues yet languish at the bottom of most donor or government priorities when it comes to attention or spending. We would like to see Medsin continue its support to the issue when the appropriate time arises, given the original Water4All campaign which existed in the network.
Proposed by: Campaigns Team
Seconded by: BSMS
Direct Negatives:
Amendments:
Result: Motion passes nemo contra
Item 6 – Proposed by Campaigns Team
Item 7 – Proposed by Campaigns TeamPolicy Statement:Medsin SUPPORTS the National Health Service (NHS) as a comprehensive, high quality healthcare system.
We OPPOSE the process by which free market principles, such as competition and deregulation, are introduced to state owned organisations. of the NHS and strongly BELIEVE in an NHS free at the point of use - providing for all, keeping the interest of its stakeholders first and foremost; the public.
We SUPPORT the aims and founding principles of the NHS as patients, as future clinicians and as interested stakeholders.
Rationale:A well functioning, high quality health system, with access for all, is integral to the health of the UK population. We would like to see Medsin continue its support for the NHS when the appropriate time arises. There has been a prominent campaigning on the topic of the NHS in the network over the past few years.
Proposed by: Campaigns Team
Seconded by: Healthy Planet
Direct Negatives: Manchester
Alternative: Nil
Amendments: We SUPPORT the aims and founding principles of the NHS, including the universality of access to healthcare regardless of citizenship. As patients, as future clinicians and as interested stakeholders.
Amendement vote:
Result: Motion passes by absolute majority
Item 7 – Proposed by Campaigns Team
Medsin Campaign Proposal – White Ribbon Alliance.
Proposed by: Keir Phillip.
Name of Campaign: The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood and the Global Maternal Mortality Campaign
Participating branches: Medsin Sheffield
Summary: The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA) is the worlds leading advocacy coalition working to save the lives of women in pregnancy and childbirth. With members in 118 countries and Alliances established in 13 the WRA works from the grassroots to the government level, raising awareness, inspiring action, influencing policy and pressing for change.
http://www.whiteribbonalliance.org
Campaign Proposal - 1
Medsin Campaign Proposal – Economic Governance for Health.
Proposed by: Taavi Tillmann
Name of Campaign: Economic Governance for Health
Participating branches: interest from Glasgow, UCL and Edinburgh.
Summary: We feel it is not enough to campaign on diseases or sector-specific issues such as health financing or the price of medicines. We have to also address the fundamental social, political and economic determinants of injustice, poverty and corruption that central to why so much of the world suffer from poor health. The movement builds on the findings of Global Health Watch, the WHO Commission on the social determinants of health, and the Lancet Trade and Health series in January 2009. We have hundreds of members from all over the world, a strong list of advisors who contribute to our activities, and a growing network of affiliated organizations (including UAEM whom Medsin is campaigning for).
