7 Appraisal Committee members, guideline representatives and NICE project team
Appraisal Committee members
The Appraisal Committee is a standing advisory committee of NICE. Its members are appointed for a 3-year term. A list of the Committee members who took part in the discussions for this appraisal appears below. The Appraisal Committee meets three times a month except in December, when there are no meetings. The Committee membership is split into three branches, each with a chair and vice chair. Each branch considers its own list of technologies, and ongoing topics are not moved between the branches.
Committee members are asked to declare any interests in the technology to be appraised. If it is considered there is a conflict of interest, the member is excluded from participating further in that appraisal.
The minutes of each Appraisal Committee meeting, which include the names of the members who attended and their declarations of interests, are posted on the NICE website.
Professor David Barnett
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester
Dr David W Black
Director of Public Health, Chesterfield PCT
Mr Brian Buckley
Chairman, Incontact
Dr Carol Campbell
Senior Lecturer, University of Teesside
Professor Mike Campbell
Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield
Professor David Chadwick
Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool
Dr Christine Davey
Senior Researcher, North Yorkshire Alliance R & D Unit
Dr Mike Davies
Consultant Physician, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Mr Richard Devereaux-Phillips
Public Affairs Manager, Medtronic Ltd
Dr Rachel A Elliott
Lord Trent Professor of Medicines and Health, the University of Nottingham
Mrs Eleanor Grey
Lay member
Dr Dyfrig Hughes
Senior Research Fellow in Pharmacoeconomics, Centre for the Economics of Health and Policy in Health, University of Wales
Dr Peter Jackson
Clinical Pharmacologist, the University of Sheffield
Ms Rachel Lewis
Nurse Advisor to the Department of Health
Dr Damien Longson
Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry, North Manchester General Hospital
Professor Jonathan Michaels
Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Sheffield
Dr Eugene Milne
Deputy Medical Director, North East Strategic Health Authority
Dr Simon Mitchell
Consultant Neonatal Paediatrician, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
Dr Katherine Payne
Health Economics Research Fellow, The University of Manchester
Dr Philip Rutledge
Consultant in Medicines Management, NHS Lothian
Mr Miles Scott
Chief Executive, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Surinder Sethi
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, North West Specialised Services Commissioning Team
Professor Andrew Stevens
Chair of Appraisal Committee C
Dr Cathryn Thomas
Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Care & General Practice, University of Birmingham
Dr William Turner
Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Guideline representatives
The following individual, representing the Guideline Development Group responsible for developing NICE's guideline related to this topic, was invited to attend the meeting to observe and to contribute as an adviser to the Committee.
Professor Tom Treasure
VTE Guideline Development Group
NICE project team
Each technology appraisal is assigned to a team consisting of one or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the appraisal), a technical adviser and a project manager.
Dr Ruaraidh Hill and Prashanth Kandaswamy
Technical Leads
Dr Helen Chung
Technical Adviser
Chris Feinmann
Project Manager