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 3 times a month except in December, when there are no meetings. The committee membership is split into 3 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 (chair, first appraisal committee meeting)
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester

Dr David W Black
Director of Public Health, Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust

Mr Brian Buckley
Chairman, Incontact

Professor Mike Campbell
Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield

Mr David Chandler
Lay member

Mr Peter Clarke
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Merseyside

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

Professor Rachel A Elliott
Lord Trent Professor of Medicines and Health, the University of Nottingham

Dr Dyfrig Hughes
Reader in Pharmacoeconomics, Centre for Economics and Policy in Health, Bangor University

Dr Peter Jackson
Consultant Physician, Royal Hallamshire Hospital

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 Katherine Payne
Health Economics Research Fellow, The University of Manchester

Dr Danielle Preedy
Lay member

Dr Martin J Price
Head of Outcomes Research, Janssen-Cilag Ltd

Dr Philip Rutledge
Consultant in Medicines Management, NHS Lothian

Dr Surinder Sethi
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, North West Specialised Services Commissioning Team

Professor Andrew Stevens (chair, second appraisal committee meeting)
Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham

Dr Cathryn Thomas
Associate Professor and General Practitioner, Department of Primary Care & General Practice, University of Birmingham

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.

Zoe Garrett
Technical Lead

Janet Robertson
Technical Adviser

Chris Feinmann
Project Manager