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 the Newcastle and York External Assessment Centre. The interim process and 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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Mick Arber, 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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Emma Belilios, Administrator, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Iain Willits, Clinical 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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Derek Bousfield, Senior Clinical Technologist, 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 P Bourke (Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist and Senior Lecturer, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
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Dr Benjamin Brown (Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust)
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Professor G Andre Ng (Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist and Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust)
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Dr Ewen Shepherd (Consultant Cardiologist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).
Declarations of interest
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Professor G Andre Ng has a consultancy agreement with St Jude Medical acting as International EP Curriculum Director (with paid lecture fees), and Biosense Webster for Proctorship and Educational activity. He is also supervisor to a Clinical Research Fellowship funded by St. Jude Medical. He was also a Specialist Adviser to the NICE Interventional Procedures Programme (2010–2013).
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Dr John Bourke, Dr Benjamin Brown, Dr Ewen Shepherd – No relevant interests declared.
Copyright
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ISBN: 978‑1‑4731‑1772‑3