Farsight SPI Consulting Ltd - Britain's leading predictive public affairs consultancy

Farsight SPI's mission is to be Britain's premier consultancy offering high level political intelligence on tomorrow's policy environment for decision makers in the public and private healthcare sectors.

Today, the UK's health market is its most politicised. Yet, there is no company offering senior executives in NHS Trusts, private hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and management consultancies high-grade predictive public affairs. There is no other company that systematically monitors, interprets and predicts the health policy output and thinking of those who determine the public policy environment of tomorrow - namely the government, the No.10 Downing Street policy unit, the think tanks, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats, leading academics and a range of other opinion formers. Instead, there are public affairs companies that monitor current legislation, offer a range of lobby services and specialise in reactive crisis management. There are public relations companies that provide a wide range of communications services. There are management consultancies that offer strategic, operational and IT services. There are private intelligence companies that offer current risk and intelligence assessments. And of course there are a range of health consultancies that offer market intelligence.

Dr. Tim Evans

Dr. Tim Evans is the Managing Director of Farsight SPI. He has an outstanding record in promoting private sector reforms to politicians and opinion formers around the world. A former President and of the Centre for the New Europe (2002-2005), between 1993 and early 2002 he was the Executive Director of Public Affairs at the Independent Healthcare Association in London where he oversaw the political affairs and public relations of the UK’s independent health and social care sector. He is widely credited as being the major driving force behind the 2000 Concordat which was described by the Financial Times as the most “historic deal in 50 years of British healthcare”.

Prior to that (1991-1992) he was the Chief Economic and Political Adviser to the Slovak Prime Minister – Dr. Jan Carnogursky - and was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. In the late 1980s he was the Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies and subsequently became a Senior Policy Consultant at the Adam Smith Institute.

In 1993 he was awarded his PhD from the London School of Economics. A political sociologist by background, he has taught at a number of academic institutions over the years including post-graduate students Social Policy at London’s Guildhall University and the Economics and Politics of the Future on the Strategic Command Course of Britain’s Police Staff College at Bramshill.

A regular commentator on television and radio, his articles have appeared in the Guardian, Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal Europe and a host of other newspapers around the world. The author of numerous books, monographs and articles he has been published by the Adam Smith Institute, Centre for the New Europe, Fabian Society, Institute of Economic Affairs, Fraser Institute, Libertarian Alliance, Heritage Foundation, and the Independent Healthcare Association.

Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard is Britain’s most prolific freelance journalist in the national press. A director and Senior Health Consultant with Farsight SPI, he writes regularly about politics and public policy in The Times and Daily Mail.

From 1998-2000 he was a columnist and Chief Leader Writer on the Daily Express. Before that, between 1995 and 1998, he was Head of Research at the Social Market Foundation, and from 1992-1995 he was the Research Director of the Fabian Society. He was Research Assistant to Rt. Hon Peter Shore MP between 1989-1992.

Described by the Sunday Times as a New Labour ‘guru’, and by the New Statesman as a leading ‘British neo-Conservative’, today he is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the New Europe, the Brussels-based free market think tank, where he directs the health policy programme, and a Senior Fellow at Civitas - the Institute for the Study of Civil Society. In February 2005 he was an expert witness in the US Senate’s hearing on drug importation.

He is the author of numerous pamphlets and books on health and public policy, and is co-author with Andrew Adonis (formerly the Prime Minister’s senior policy adviser and now a minister) of the best-selling A Class Act – the Myth of Britain’s Classless Society (Penguin, 1998). His biography of David Blunkett was published in December 2004.

Helen Evans

Helen Evans is a director and Senior Health Policy Consultant with Farsight. A policy consultant and writer with a wealth of clinical and healthcare delivery experience, she has also worked with a range of European think tanks that include the Stockholm Network and the Centre for the New Europe.

Helen is a former senior nurse and university guest lecturer with an extensive background in public policy. A graduate in Health Management from Anglia Ruskin University, she is currently in the final stages of her Ph.D in Health Economics at Brunel University.

Over the last two decades she 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.

Published by the Institute of Economic Affairs, Centre for the New Europe and the Libertarian Alliance she today lives in central London.

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		THE FARSIGHT TEAM Dr. Tim Evans Dr. Tim Evans is the Managing Director of Farsight SPI. He has an outstanding record in promoting private sector reforms to politicians and opinion formers around the world. A former President and of the Centre for the New Europe (2002-2005), between 1993 and early 2002 he was the Executive Director of Public Affairs at the Independent Healthcare Association in London where he oversaw the political affairs and public relations of the UK’s independent health and social care sector. He is widely credited as being the major driving force behind the 2000 Concordat which was described by the Financial Times as the most “historic deal in 50 years of British healthcare”. Prior to that (1991-1992) he was the Chief Economic and Political Adviser to the Slovak Prime Minister – Dr. Jan Carnogursky - and was Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. In the late 1980s he was the Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies and subsequently became a Senior Policy Consultant at the Adam Smith Institute. In 1993 he was awarded his PhD from the London School of Economics. A political sociologist by background, he has taught at a number of academic institutions over the years including post-graduate students Social Policy at London’s Guildhall University and the Economics and Politics of the Future on the Strategic Command Course of Britain’s Police Staff College at Bramshill. A regular commentator on television and radio, his articles have appeared in the Guardian, Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal Europe and a host of other newspapers around the world. The author of numerous books, monographs and articles he has been published by the Adam Smith Institute, Centre for the New Europe, Fabian Society, Institute of Economic Affairs, Fraser Institute, Libertarian Alliance, Heritage Foundation, and the Independent Healthcare Association. Stephen Pollard Stephen Pollard is Britain’s most prolific freelance journalist in the national press. A director and Senior Health Consultant with Farsight SPI, he writes regularly about politics and public policy in The Times and Daily Mail. From 1998-2000 he was a columnist and Chief Leader Writer on the Daily Express. Before that, between 1995 and 1998, he was Head of Research at the Social Market Foundation, and from 1992-1995 he was the Research Director of the Fabian Society. He was Research Assistant to Rt. Hon Peter Shore MP between 1989-1992. Described by the Sunday Times as a New Labour ‘guru’, and by the New Statesman as a leading ‘British neo-Conservative’, today he is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the New Europe, the Brussels-based free market think tank, where he directs the health policy programme, and a Senior Fellow at Civitas - the Institute for the Study of Civil Society. In February 2005 he was an expert witness in the US Senate’s hearing on drug importation. He is the author of numerous pamphlets and books on health and public policy, and is co-author with Andrew Adonis (formerly the Prime Minister’s senior policy adviser and now a minister) of the best-selling A Class Act – the Myth of Britain’s Classless Society (Penguin, 1998). His biography of David Blunkett was published in December 2004. Helen Evans Helen Evans is a director and Senior Health Policy Consultant with Farsight. A policy consultant and writer with a wealth of clinical and healthcare delivery experience, she has also worked with a range of European think tanks that include the Stockholm Network and the Centre for the New Europe. Helen is a former senior nurse and university guest lecturer with an extensive background in public policy. A graduate in Health Management from Anglia Ruskin University, she is currently in the final stages of her Ph.D in Health Economics at Brunel University. Over the last two decades she 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. Published by the Institute of Economic Affairs, Centre for the New Europe and the Libertarian Alliance she today lives in central London.
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Farsight SPI Consulting Ltd - Britain's leading predictive public affairs consultancy

Farsight SPI's mission is to be Britain's premier consultancy offering high level political intelligence on tomorrow's policy environment for decision makers in the public and private healthcare sectors.

THE FARSIGHT TEAM

Dr. Tim Evans

Stephen Pollard

Helen Evans