Malcolm Alexander
Malcolm Alexander is a Lecturer in ‘Patient and Public Involvement in Health/Social Care’ and ‘Power and Empowerment’ at Westminster University. He is Chair of the Patients’ Forum for the London Ambulance Service and the National Association of LINks Members. Malcolm is an adviser on campaigning and health policy to the British Homeopathic Association. His academic background is in Community Development and Anthropology. Formerly, Chief Officer of Southwark Community Health Council (CHC) and the national Director of the Association of CHCs for England and Wales until 2003. 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 to explore the problems and opportunities of the new LINks system for patient and public involvement, which the government implemented from April 1st 2008.
