Bríd Hehir started her career in Ireland before working as a volunteer nurse in Africa for four years. She joined the national health service in the early 80s and remained there until 2011, first as a nurse, midwife and heath visitor and then as a senior manager before being made redundant in 2011. Until recently, she also practiced in the field of contraception and sexual health. During that time she developed a keen interest in the politics of health and health care provision both in the developed and developing world.

She remains a regular contributor to the nursing press and has contributed to spiked on a variety of topics including the turning of clinicians into state apparatchiks. She is a BoI Committee member and regular attendee at the IOI Book Club.