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4 Committee members and NICE project team

Committee members

This topic was considered by NICE's medical technologies advisory committee, which is a standing advisory committee of NICE.

Committee members are asked to declare any interests in the technologies to be evaluated. If it is considered there is a conflict of interest, the member is excluded from participating further in that evaluation.

The minutes of the medical technologies advisory committee meetings, which include the names of the members who attended and their declarations of interests, are posted on the NICE website.

Additional specialist committee members took part in the discussions and provided expert advice for this topic:

Specialist committee members

Usman Bhatty
Post-CCT knee fellow in trauma and orthopaedic surgery, Health Education England North West

Andrew Port
Consultant orthopaedic surgeon, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Jonathan Rees
Institute director, Botnar Institute for Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford

Paul Baker
Consultant in trauma and orthopaedics, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Rebecca Dickens
Lay member

NICE project team

Each medical technologies guidance topic is assigned to a team consisting of 1 or more health technology assessment analysts (who act as technical leads for the topic), a health technology assessment adviser and a project manager.

Toby Sands and Ivan Maslyankov
Health technology assessment analysts

Bernice Dillon
Health technology assessment adviser

Catherine Pank
Project manager

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