6 Appraisal Committee members, and NICE project team
Appraisal Committee members
The Appraisal Committees are standing advisory committees of NICE. 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. There are 4 Appraisal Committees, each with a chair and vice chair. Each Appraisal Committee meets once a month, except in December when there are no meetings. Each Committee considers its own list of technologies, and ongoing topics are not moved between Committees.
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.
Dr Jane Adam (Chair)
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, St George's Hospital
Professor Philip Home (Vice Chair)
Professor of Diabetes Medicine, Newcastle University
Professor A E Ades
Professor of Public Health Science, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol
Dr 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
Mr Adrian Griffin
VP Strategic Affairs, LifeScan, Johnson & Johnson
Dr Alec Miners
Lecturer in Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Ann Richardson
Lay Member
Mr David Thomson
Lay Member
Mr William Turner
Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Dr Luke Twelves
General Practitioner, Ramsey Health Centre, Cambridgeshire
Mr Mike Spencer
Assistant Director Patient Experience, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Dr James Moon
Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer, University College London Hospital (UCLH) and UCL
Dr David Newsham
Lecturer (Orthoptics), University of Liverpool
Professor Iain Squire
Consultant Physician, University Hospitals of Leicester
Dr Peter Heywood
Consultant Neurologist, Frenchay Hospital
Dr Ian Lewin
Consultant Endocrinologist, North Devon District Hospital
Dr Louise Longworth
Reader in Health Economics, HERG, Brunel University
Dr Anthony S Wierzbicki
Consultant in Metabolic Medicine and Chemical Pathology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust
Professor Jonathan Grigg
Professor of Paediatric Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University London
Dr John Watkins
Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Cardiff University and National Public Health Service Wales
Dr Olivia Wu
Reader in Health Economics, University of Glasgow
Dr Paul Robinson
Medical Director, Merck Sharp & Dohme
Mr Stephen Sharp
Senior Statistician, MRC Epidemiology Unit
NICE project team
Each technology appraisal is assigned to a team consisting of 1 or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the appraisal), a technical adviser and a project manager.
Raisa Sidhu
Technical Lead
Rebecca Trowman
Technical Adviser
Zoe Garrett
Technical Adviser
Bijal Joshi
Project Manager