‘A view from Europe: Transferring Health Policy Knowledge from Europe to the English Context’
The series aims to improve the transfer of practical, highly relevant health policy experience from
Europe and abroad to health policy organisations in England.
23 June
*How do EU rules impact across the range of NHS activities? What are the opportunities on offer to NHS organisations in various EU initiatives and programmes?
Leigh Hancher (Allen & Overy, Amsterdam)
Leigh Hancher works as Of Counsel for Allen & Overy. She specialises in European and Dutch Law relating to network sectors including gas, electricity, telecoms, transport, post and water. Her expertise is primary in the field of interconnection between competition law and sector-specific regulation with a particular emphasis on access pricing and conditions, state aid and cross subsidization. She writes and lectures regularly on these subjects She has acted regularly as advisor to the European
Commission and the European Parliament on energy law issues. Leigh is also a professor of European law at the University of Tilbur and was a member of the
Scientific Council for Government Policy (WWR).
Tamara Hervey (University of Sheffield)
Tamara Hervey is Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law at the University of
Sheffield. Her main research interests are in the field of European Union social and constitutional law, in particular its application in health fields, social security and welfare, and non-discrimination. She is interested in the phenomenon of 'new governance' in the EU, in particular as an alternative or supplement to 'command and control' means of regulation in social fields. She has published on the European
Union´s competence in social fields, especially health law; on the regulation of tobacco in the EU context; on European public health law and policy; on the governance of stem cell research in the EU; on EU non-discrimination law and minority rights; and on the 'right to health' in European contexts. She is interested in socio-legal theory and method, in particular as applied to the law of the European
Union. She is also Convenor of the Centre for the Study of Law in Society and a member of CLIC and SIBLE.

Elisabetta Zanon (NHS European Office)
Elisabetta Zanon has over 15 years of professional experience in European affairs.
This has included working for EU associations and representing different UK public sector organisations to the EU institutions. She has a successful track record in influencing EU policy and legislation and in designing and running EU communication campaigns. Elisabetta established the NHS European Office in
Brussels at the end of 2007 and is currently working as Director of this office.