7 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), member until May 2011
Professor of Diabetes Medicine, Newcastle University
Professor A E Ades
Professor of Public Health Science, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol
Elizabeth Brain, member until November 2010
Lay member
Professor Karl Claxton, member until February 2010
Professor of Health Economics, University of York
Dr Fiona Duncan
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
Christopher Earl
Surgical Care Practitioner, Renal Transplant Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Dr Paul Ewings, member until November 2010
Statistician, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton
John Goulston, member until May 2011
Chief Executive, Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust
Adrian Griffin
VP Strategic Affairs, LifeScan, Johnson & Johnson
Professor Jonathan Grigg
Professor of Paediatric Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University London
Dr Peter Heywood
Consultant Neurologist, Frenchay Hospital
Dr Sharon Saint Lamont
Head of Quality and Innovation, North East Strategic Health Authority
Dr Ian Lewin
Consultant Endocrinologist, North Devon District Hospital
Dr Louise Longworth
Reader in Health Economics, HERG, Brunel University
Dr Alec Miners
Lecturer in Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr James Moon, member until July 2011
Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer, University College London Hospital (UCLH) and UCL
Dr David Newsham
Lecturer (Orthoptics), University of Liverpool
Ms Pamela Rees
Lay member
Dr Ann Richardson
Lay member
Dr Paul Robinson
Medical Director, Merck Sharp & Dohme
Angela Schofield
Chairman, Bournemouth and Poole Teaching PCT
Mr Stephen Sharp
Senior Statistician, MRC Epidemiology Unit
Dr Eldon Spackman
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Mr Mike Spencer
Assistant Director Patient Experience, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Professor Iain Squire
Consultant Physician, University Hospitals of Leicester
David Thomson
Lay member
William Turner
Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Dr Luke Twelves
General Practitioner, Ramsey Health Centre, Cambridgeshire
Dr John Watkins
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Cardiff University and National Public Health Service Wales
Dr Anthony S Wierzbicki
Consultant in Metabolic Medicine, Chemical Pathology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Olivia Wu
Reader in Health Economics, University of Glasgow
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.
Pall Jonsson, Fay McCracken and Whitney Miller
Technical Leads
Nicola Hay and Helen Knight
Technical Advisers
Bijal Joshi
Project Manager