UK Healthcare Petitions to Royal Colleges

🇵🇸 For more than a year, UKHPRC has been asking the royal colleges questions they cannot afford to leave unanswered.

We, along with the broader healthcare movement, have repeatedly warned healthcare royal colleges about the genocide in Palestine, concerns over the British government’s role, and the risks of institutional complicity through silence, omission and unethical activity.

Over the past 12 months, we have been examining institutional discourse: what is said, what is left unsaid, whose suffering is acknowledged and whose interests are protected.

Is humanitarian concern genuinely guiding institutional decisions? Or has the language of medical ethics become a respectable cover for relationships that lend credibility, visibility and legitimacy to actors implicated in grave international crimes?

In her UN report, From economy of occupation to economy of genocide, Francesca Albanese examined the corporate and institutional machinery sustaining violations against Palestinians.

From carefully choreographed expressions of concern to convenient silences, from corporate sponsorship to procurement decisions and cosy conversations behind government doors, whose interests do the royal colleges’ words, silences and relationships ultimately serve?

Colonial history was not written by villains alone. For decades, crimes against humanity and apartheid have been enabled by respectable institutions, polished reputations and those fluent in the language of ethics who somehow always knew when to look the other way.

The presidential chain of office may glitter with virtue, and the college crest may polish its conscience. But the time is approaching when those who hide behind these symbols will be named, their decisions exposed and their ethical failures brought into the full glare of public scrutiny.

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