Doctors of the World UK

Who we are

For thirty years, Doctors of the World UK has been reaching the people that mainstream health services miss. People who are afraid to seek help. People who don't know what they're entitled to. People who've been turned away. 

We provide free, confidential healthcare through our clinics and outreach work. No requirement for documents. No questions about status. Just care, delivered by staff and volunteers with the clinical skills to treat complex needs and the compassion to do it with dignity. 

But we don't stop at treatment. Every patient we see is evidence of where the system is failing. We take that evidence and use it: in policy work, in media, in direct advocacy with the people who can change things. 

Our reach goes beyond the UK. Through the Medecins du Monde network, we work in more than 70 countries. The problems we see in London are part of a global pattern. The solutions we find here matter there, too. 

Our culture and values

Our vales

1. Activism: As a member of the Médecins du Monde global movement of volunteers and salaried staff we provide medical services and bear witness. Strengthened by our diversity we support excluded people to attain social change.
2. Balance: We seek balance between our national and international actions, emergency, and long-term programmes, between medical and lay knowledge, and between public funding and private donations.
3. Empowerment: We believe our service users are agents of change in their own health. In partnership with others, we seek to support them to act and exercise their rights.
4. Social Justice: We believe social justice is a vehicle for equal access to healthcare, respect for fundamental rights and solidarity.
5. Independence: We have no political or religious affiliation. We are independent in our choice of programmes and operating methods.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Doctors of the World UK takes a proactive approach to ensuring fairness and opposing discrimination across our workforce. Through our Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) policy, we embed equality principles into recruitment, employment practices, learning and development, performance management and organisational culture. We monitor diversity data, make reasonable adjustments where required, and are committed to addressing systemic inequalities, including through our organisational commitment to racial justice. All staff, volunteers and contractors are expected to contribute to an inclusive and respectful working environment.