Helen Bevan is a practitioner, thought leader and activist in large-scale change in health and care, with more than three decades of experience in the NHS. She currently serves as Professor of Practice in Health and Care Improvement at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick; Strategic Advisor to the NHS Horizons team; and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, USA.
Her career began in the 1980s as an early advocate of quality improvement. She led the Leicester Royal Improvement Re-engineering Programme, which won the Hewlett Packard Golden Helix Award for best healthcare innovation in Europe in the 1990s. She was instrumental in founding the NHS Modernisation Agency in 2001, and later created transformative initiatives including NHS Change Day and the School for Change Agents.
Helen reaches over one million people monthly through her social media presence and is acknowledged as one of the top healthcare social influencers globally.