OK. So you want to be part of Total Defence of the NHS. You want to join the 10,000. To be the first of the few. If you’re in any of the London boroughs in the title, here’s your chance. You have until the 15th July, Saturday, to apply on this web page.
There’s a gaggle of documentation to read, which I’m getting through now. Here’s a first and amazingly important point. Each one of those CCGs needs a lay member to act as Chair of the Audit Committee. This is probably the most important public appointment accessible to you, and it is especially accessible to anybody with accounting or financial experience. If you want leverage against privatisation, this is the place to stick your crowbar.
It’s a job in itself; all of them are. But they’ll even pay you. Time to take hilltops and create facts on the ground.