The Steering Group
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Malcolm Alexander
Ruth Marsden John Larkin |
HAPIA South and Director
HAPIA North and Director Company Secretary and Director |
020 8809 6551
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Jack Firth
Eleanor Pang |
Len Roberts
Dag Saunders |
Anita Higham
Mary Ledgard |

MALCOLM ALEXANDER - HAPIA South
Malcolm is a former lecturer in 'Patient and Public Involvement in Health/Social Care' and 'Power and Empowerment' at Westminster University and has a Masters in both Community Development and Anthropology (culture and mental health). He is a member of the Department of Health's HealthWatch Programme Board and English Revalidation Delivery Board, and Vice Chair of AvMA and the Patient's Forum for the London Ambulance Service.
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 is a former lecturer in 'Patient and Public Involvement in Health/Social Care' and 'Power and Empowerment' at Westminster University and has a Masters in both Community Development and Anthropology (culture and mental health). He is a member of the Department of Health's HealthWatch Programme Board and English Revalidation Delivery Board, and Vice Chair of AvMA and the Patient's Forum for the London Ambulance Service.
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.

RUTH MARSDEN - HAPIA North
Ruth is Chair of the Clinical Radiology Patient Liaison Group for the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals' Trust, Chair of the Specialist Trusts of Yorkshire, Humberside and Teesside, a member of the Hull LINk and Lead Group member of ERYLINk.
STEERING GROUP PHOTO GALLERY
SOUTH EAST + SOUTH CENTRAL
Len Roberts - roberts@ridlands.demon.co.uk Anita Higham - polygonhouse@waitrose.com SOUTH WEST Eleonore Pang - ellipang@btinternet.com YORKSHIRE + HUMBERSIDE Ruth Marsden - ruth@myford.karoo.co.uk WEST MIDLANDS Vacant EAST MIDLANDS Elsie Gayle - elsie_gayle@hotmail.com |
EAST OF ENGLAND
Mary Ledgard ledgard@clara.co.uk LONDON Malcolm Alexander - HAPIA2013@aol.com NORTH EAST Vacant NORTH WEST - Co-Opted Member Jack Firth - firthjack9@gmail.com Catherine Gleeson - cathgleesonmail@gmail.com |