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 A E Ades
Professor of Public Health Science, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol
Dr Amanda Adler
Consultant Physician, Cambridge University Hospitals Trust
Ms Anne Allison
Nurse Clinical Adviser, Healthcare Commission
Dr Tom Aslan
General Practitioner, The Hampstead Group Practice, London
Professor David Barnett (Chair)
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Leicester Royal Infirmary
Dr Matt Bradley
Head of HTA and Business Environment, Sanofi-Aventis
Mrs Elizabeth Brain
Lay Member
Mr David Chandler
Lay Member
Dr Karl Claxton
Professor of Health Economics, Department of Economics & Related Research, the University of York
Dr Simon Dixon
Reader in Health Economics, University of Sheffield
Mrs Fiona Duncan
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
Dr Paul Ewings
Statistician, Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton
Mr John Goulston
Chief Executive, Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust
Ms Eleanor Grey
Lay Member
Dr Richard Harling
Director of Public Health, Worcestershire PCT and Worcestershire County Council
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 Rubin Minhas
General Practitioner
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
Mr Cliff Snelling
Lay Member
Dr Simon Thomas
Consultant Physician and Reader in Therapeutics, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University
Mr David Thomson
Lay Member
Mr William Turner
Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Dr Norman Vetter
Reader, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of 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.
Georgios Vamvakas
Technical Lead
Janet Robertson
Technical Adviser
Eloise Saile
Project Manager
Bijal Chandarana
Project Manager from September 2008