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WHAM
Wellbeing and Health Action Movement
A movement to inform, empower, and unite clinicians to fight health inequalities.
Inequality drives poor health—but clinicians aren’t powerless. With WHAM, you don’t have to make change alone.
Every day, clinicians across the UK feel that something’s not quite right.
We treat illness, but rarely address its root causes.
We care deeply, but often feel powerless to act on the social forces harming our patients.
We sense the system is sick—but no one hands us the tools to heal it.
Turning Intention Into Impact
Every day, clinicians across the UK feel that something’s not quite right.
We treat illness, but rarely address its root causes.
We care deeply, but often feel powerless to act on the social forces harming our patients.
We sense the system is sick—but no one hands us the tools to heal it.
Sickness
If lifestyle and living conditions account for 80% of health outcomes, and actual healthcare accounts for only 20%— then what are we really treating?
As clinicians, we’re trained to fix bodies. In paediatrics, the job is clear: treat sick kids. But no matter how many symptoms we soothe, we’ll never stem the tide if we ignore the conditions shaping those lives in the first place.
Because no child can thrive in a world that is sick.
And no amount of prescriptions can treat poverty, racism, poor housing, or hunger.
The problem?
We rarely talk about these things—the social determinants of health—in the clinic. Not because we don’t care, but because we’re not shown how.
Medical training doesn’t prepare us. The system discourages it. And so we stay silent, overwhelmed, burned out—stuck between what we know matters and what we feel powerless to address.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. We believe health is co-created by clinicians, patients, families, and communities working together.
You don’t need a new job title to create change. You just need the right support to act on the sense that something isn’t right.
The truth is: every clinician is an improver. The NHS calls it Quality Improvement (QI), but too often it’s treated like a side hustle, boxed up in jargon or reserved for “the QI people.”
WHAM calls that out.
We believe every clinician already has what it takes:
Curiosity to ask why things are broken
Creativity to imagine better
Commitment to act, even in small ways
But no one transforms systems alone.
We’re a social incubator—a hothouse for bold ideas, practical tools, and shared purpose.
Through coaching, community, and creativity, we help clinicians turn insight into action, and action into impact
The REAL Medicine
We need a new way to practice medicine. One that doesn’t just manage disease, but actively builds health.
That means:
- Looking upstream, not just downstream
- Seeing people, not just patients
- Valuing justice as a core part of care
Because health needs social justice.
Real medicine understands that the biggest drivers of illness lie outside the clinic walls. But it also knows that healing starts within systems—when everyday clinicians are empowered to do things differently.
WHAM is here to make that possible.
We’re shifting the culture of medicine—from patching up harm to preventing it at the root. From working alone to working together. From burnout to belonging.
READY TO JOIN THE MOVEMENT?
If you believe there’s a better way to do healthcare—more human, more just, more effective—then WHAM is for you. This is your invitation.
Let’s reimagine health, together.
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Why treat children only to send them back to the conditions that made them sick?
