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We demand appropriate and urgent action to minimise the climate health emergency.

Climate action is the duty of all health professionals.

BREAKING NEWS: Government finally acknowledge the urgency of the climate and health crisis and announce crucial new policies at Press Briefing outside Parliament

More information and additional videos here

BREAKING NEWS: Second Emergency Climate and Health Briefing by Government at DEFRA announcing new policies to protect our health and environment by transforming agricultural and food sectors

More information and additional videos here

Non-urgent advice: Next Health for XR Welcome Meetings

Calling all climate-concerned health workers. Please join us and find out more about what we do at our next Health for XR online Welcome Meeting!

Next Welcome Meeting: May 4, 2025 7PM
More information and link here

Welcome

Thank you for visiting our website. Please do get in touch with us at contact@healthforxr.com if you have any questions or comments.

Health for Extinction Rebellion is a collective of doctors, nurses and other health professionals who recognise our professional responsibility to demand and support appropriate, proportionate and urgent action to protect our patients and the public from the escalating health harms of the climate and ecological emergency.

We hope you will support us in our work and, if you a health professional, that you will join us. We also have active regional groups in Wales, Scotland, London, Brighton and the SW, NE and NW of England – you will be sent information about your local group when you join.

The video below was filmed at Health for XR’s first ever action in September 2019. It is an introduction to why so many of us have chosen to join HXR and feel compelled to act in order to address the climate crisis.

Since 2019 we have undertaken all kinds of protests and actions across the UK. You can find out more about these HERE

The videos below show senior health figures explaining why they believe health professionals should become environmental defenders and engage in non-violent social protest to demand a stop to all new fossil fuels and to protect people from climate & ecological breakdown.

Latest News

Dr Sarah Benn’s Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) suspension review begins this week along with a second tribunal hearing for protest following a second referral by the General Medical Council (GMC)

Dr Sarah Benn, a retired GP with over 30 years of unblemished NHS service is facing her Fitness to Practice […]

June 4th 2025: HXR join Red Line Gaza protest encircling Parliament

Health for XR members participated in today’s protest against our government’s ongoing supply of arms to Israel and complicity in […]

May 2025: Following HXR letter, the Lancet now refuses adverts from fossil fuel companies and the banks who fund them

The prestigous, world-leading medical science journal, The Lancet, along with its family of over 20 other journals, has updated its […]

4th June 2025: Health workers and patients protest outside the General medical council’s committee meeting for third time

 A vigil and protest was again held outside the General Medical Council’s committee meeting in London this morning to highlight […]