Reducing the risk of transmission of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) from surgical instruments used for interventional procedures on high-risk tissues

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease advisory subcommittee members

The subcommittee met 5 times between 2017 and 2018.

Mr Tom Cadoux-Hudson
Consultant neurosurgeon, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Dr Chris Carroll
Reader in systematic review and evidence synthesis, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield

Dr Tom Clutton-Brock
Chair, NICE interventional procedures advisory committee; consultant in anaesthesia

Dr Andrew Cook
Vice chair, NICE interventional procedures advisory committee; consultant in public health medicine

Mr Nicholas Haden
Consultant neurosurgeon, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth

Dr David Hilton
Consultant neuropathologist, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Mr Alistair Jenkins
Consultant neurosurgeon, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle

Dr Neil McGuire
Clinical director of devices, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Professor Simon Mead
Consultant neurologist and clinical lead of the UK National Prion Clinic based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Professor Graham Medley
Professor of infectious disease modelling, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Katy Sinka
Consultant scientist and epidemiologist, Public Health England

Professor Colin Smith
Professor of neuropathology, University of Edinburgh

Mr John Thorne
Consultant neurosurgeon, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and Salford Royal

Dr Jimmy Walker
Scientific leader in water microbiology and decontamination, Public Health England

Mr Barrie White
Consultant neurosurgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals

Mrs Rosemary Harris
Lay representative and Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee member

Mr Lister Firkin
Lay representative and Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee member (attended only first subcommittee meeting in June 2017)

Mrs Gillian Turner
National CJD coordinator, CJD Support Network (joined in September 2017 after first subcommittee meeting in June 2017)

NICE project team

Professor Kevin Harris
Programme director and clinical advisor, interventional procedures programme

Professor John Powell
Consultant clinical advisor, interventional procedures programme

Mrs Lakshmi Mandava
Technical analyst

Mrs Bijal Joshi
Programme manager

Ms Hawra Gulal and Miss Deonee Stanislaus
Coordinators

Mr Azad Hussain
Administrator