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Helen Evans (London, United Kingdom)

Helen Evans is president of Nurses for Reform (NFR), a pan-European network of nurses dedicated to consumer-oriented reform of European health care systems headquartered in London.

A senior nurse with nearly twenty years’ experience in the NHS, Evans has worked in some of Britain’s leading hospitals including Senior Infection Control Nurse, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust; Infection Control Nurse, the Royal London Hospitals NHS Trust; Operating Theatre Sister, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

She trained at Whipps Cross Hospital in London’s East End and holds a degree in Health Management from Anglia Ruskin University. Evans is currently a Ph.D student in the final stages of her thesis in Health Economics at Brunel University.

In addition to running NFR, Evans is a health policy consultant who has worked with a range of British and European think tanks including the Stockholm Network and the Centre for the New Europe. She is also a director and Senior Health Policy Consultant with Farsight Strategic Political Intelligence Ltd (Farsight SPI) – Britain’s leading predictive public affairs consultancy in health policy.

In June 2007, Evans published an opinion-editorial in The Chicago Tribune noting the shortcomings of Michael Moore’s film, “Sicko.” She explained: “For free hospital care, Britons pay an awfully high price.”

• “What Michael Moore left on the cutting room floor” The Chicago Tribune (Opinion-Editorial), By Helen Evans (June 26, 2007) (Subscription Required)