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
Dr Rob Hallifax
Consultant in respiratory medicine and senior research fellow, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and University of Oxford
Ravijyot Saggu
Consultant respiratory pharmacist, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Cheryl O'Sullivan
Advanced nurse practitioner, chief nursing information officer and clinical safety officer, NHS Dorset
David McLean
Patient expert
Rashmi Agrawal
Patient expert
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.
Aamer Jawed and Amy Crossley
Health technology assessment advisers
Haider Shamsi and Toby Sands
Health technology assessment analysts
Catherine Pank
Project manager
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