Malcolm Alexander
Malcolm Alexander is vice chair of AvMA and a former lecturer in ‘Patient and Public Involvement in Health/Social Care’ and ‘Power and Empowerment’ at Westminster University. He is chair of the National Association of LINks Members (NALM) and vice chair of the Patients’ Forum for the London Ambulance Service. Malcolm is member of the Department of Health's Healthwatch Programme Board and English Revalidation Delivery Board. He has a Masters in both Community Development and Anthropology (culture and mental health). Malcolm was the Chief Officer of Southwark Community Health Council (CHC) and the national Director of the Association of CHCs for England and Wales. An active health campaigner, with a special interest in stroke, acute services, complementary medicine, mental health, health care in detention centres for asylum seekers, ethnicity in relation to access to health care, opposing NHS privatisation, and working with communities to change health policy and practice. Malcolm engages actively with the political process and the media in the context of health policy and public advocacy. He is actively involved with working with communities across England and government to explore the problems and opportunities of the Healthwatch system for patient and public involvement, which the government intends to implement in 2012.
