The scheme is being backed by Wyre Forest District Council, Bromsgrove District Council and Redditch Borough Council.
They are: Dudley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Rugby, Sandwell, Shropshire, South Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Wyre Forest.
Wyre Forest MP Richard Taylor is the only current member of Parliament to be elected as an Independent.
However, Labour lost out to an independent candidate in Wyre Forest fighting against the closure of a local hospital.
The Conservatives are signalling they will not withdraw their candidate in Wyre Forest.
And the Conservative leader of Wyre Forest District Council, John Campion told the BBC he would rather spend the money on other things.
This time round, in the constituency of Wyre Forest, just to the south-west of Birmingham, it is a man in a white coat.
Eric Buchan, chairman of Wyre Forest Canoe Club in Worcestershire, said Mr Smith, who had been a member for 16 years, was a "brilliant" canoeist.
Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire are all upper-level authorities in a two-tier system with district councils like Cheltenham, Tamworth, Wyre Forest and Stratford-on-Avon underneath them.
But the move in Wyre Forest could strain relations with Labour - although party leader Charles Kennedy has insisted there are no 'backroom' deals between the two sides.
Dr Taylor, you'll remember, was elected as independent MP for Wyre Forest in 2001 and again in 2005 on a tidal wave of public outrage over the downgrading of Kidderminster General Hospital.
This will be one of main talking points on this week's Sunday Politics Midlands when I will be joined by Katharine Merry, Conservative MP for Wyre Forest, Mark Garnier, and the Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East, Emma Reynolds.
And yet even Mr Lansley's critics agree that, as the former Independent MP for Wyre Forest Dr Richard Taylor puts it, "the NHS needs to change" - though he's urging "evolution not revolution" and is especially concerned by what he sees as Mr Lansley's failure to put patient safety at the heart of his recommendations.
Eight Independent Community and Health Concern candidates will be doing their best to keep alive the flame of people power which famously flared eight years ago at Wyre Forest, when opposition to the downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital led to the election of the Independent MP Richard Taylor and swept the party to control of the district council there.
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