Advice
About this briefing
Medtech innovation briefings summarise the published evidence and information available for individual medical technologies. The briefings provide information to aid local decision-making by clinicians, managers, and procurement professionals.
Medtech innovation briefings aim to present information and critically review the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant evidence, but contain no recommendations and are not formal NICE guidance.
Development of this briefing
This briefing was developed for NICE by Newcastle and York External Assessment Centre. The Interim Process & Methods Statement sets out the process NICE uses to select topics, and how the briefings are developed, quality assured and approved for publication.
Project team
Newcastle and York External Assessment Centre
Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme, NICE
Peer reviewers and contributors
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Kim Keltie, Research Scientist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Derek Bousfield, Senior Clinical Technologist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Hannah Wood, Information Specialist, York Health Economics Consortium
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Roseanne Jones, Research Scientist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Helen Cole, Head of Service – Clinical Scientist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Iain Willits, Medical Technologies Evaluator, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist commentators
The following specialist commentators provided comments on a draft of this briefing:
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Dr John Andrzejowski, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Neurointensive care, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
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Dr Andrew Eldridge, Consultant Anaesthetist, Colchester General Hospital
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Dr David Smith, Consultant Anaesthetist, Southampton General Hospital and Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia, University of Southampton
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Dr Jon Smith, Consultant Anaesthetist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle
Copyright
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ISBN: 978-1-4731-0753-3