David Wrigley

David Wrigley is a British medical doctor who works as a general practitioner (GP) in Lancashire and is the deputy chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) Council. He is a member of the Labour Party and Socialist Health Association.

Early life Wrigley was born in Blackpool. He was educated at St Mary's RC High School, Blackpool, leaving at 15 to work in a high-street bank. Then, at the age of 21, he left Barclays Bank and studied full-time for A-levels.

In 2002, he was elected to the BMA's General Practitioner's Committee (GPC) as a regional representative for Lancashire and Cumbria. The following year he was elected to the Council of the BMA. He became a Trustee of the Cameron Fund (benevolent charity) in 2009, and was Treasurer from 2011-2017. He was an outspoken critic of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

He was the chair of Doctors in Unite, also known as the Medical Practitioners' Union from 2015–2018.

He was deputy chair of the Council of the BMA from 2016–2017 and was re-elected deputy chair in August 2018.

Books Wrigley was a contributor to the book NHS SOS: How the NHS Was Betrayed and How We Can Save It, edited by Jacky Davis and Raymond Tallis, published in 2013 by Oneworld Publications . The book debunks the myths put about by politicians such as 'the private sector is more efficient than the public sector' or 'we are not privatising the NHS'. It explains how cuts and closures are impacting on the NHS and how politicians have pushed these changes through due to their ideological policies.