7 Appraisal Committee members, 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
AE
Ades
Professor of Public Health Science, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol
Dr
Amanda
Adler
Consultant Physician, Cambridge University Hospitals Trust
Dr
Tom
Aslan
General Practitioner, Stockwell, London
Professor
David
Barnett
(Chair)
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester
Mrs
Elizabeth
Brain
Lay member
Professor
Karl
Claxton
Health Economist, University of York
Simon
Dixon
Reader in Health Economics, University of Sheffield
Mrs
Fiona
Duncan
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
Mr
John
Goulston
Director of Finance, Barts and the London NHS Trust
Mr
Adrian
Griffin
Health Outcomes Manager, Johnson & Johnson Medical
Professor
Philip
Home
(Vice
Chair)
Professor of Diabetes Medicine, Newcastle University
Dr
Vincent
Kirkbride
Consultant Neonatologist, Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Sheffield
Dr
Simon
Maxwell
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology and Honorary Consultant Physician, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh
Dr
Alec
Miners
Lecturer in Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr
Ann
Richardson
Lay Member
Mrs
Angela
Schofield
Chairman, Bournemouth and Poole Teaching PCT
Mr
Mike
Spencer
General Manager, Facilities and Clinical Support Services, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust
Dr
Simon
Thomas
Consultant Physician and Reader in Therapeutics, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University.
Mr
David
Thomson
Lay member
Dr
Norman
Vetter
Reader, Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Wales, Cardiff
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.
Elangovan
Gajraj
Technical Lead
Helen
Chung
Technical Adviser
Eloise
Saile
Project Manager