Appendix A: 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. The appraisal committee meets 3 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.
The following is a list of the committee members who took part in the discussions for this appraisal.
Dr Jane Adam
Radiologist, St George's Hospital, London
Professor AE Ades
MRC Senior Scientist, MRC Health Services Research Collaboration,
Department of Social Medicine, University
Anne Allison
Nurse Clinical Adviser, Healthcare Commission
Dr Tom Aslan
General Practitioner, Stockwell, London
Professor David Barnett (Chair)
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University
Mrs Elizabeth Brain
Lay Member
Dr Karl Claxton
Health Economist, University
Dr Richard Cookson
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, School of Medicine Health Policy and Practice, University
Mrs Fiona Duncan
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
Professor Christopher Eccleston
Director, Pain Management Unit, University
Dr Paul Ewings
Statistician, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton
Professor John Geddes
Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, University
Mr John Goulston
Director of Finance, Barts and the London NHS Trust
Mr Adrian Griffin
Health Outcomes Manager, Johnson & Johnson Medical Ltd
Ms Linda Hands
Clinical Reader in Surgery, University
Dr Rowan Hillson
Consultant Physician, Diabeticare, The Hillingdon
Professor Philip Home (Vice Chair)
Professor of Diabetes Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Dr Terry John
General Practitioner, The Firs, London
Professor Richard Lilford
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University
Dr Simon Maxwell
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology and Honorary Consultant Physician, Queens Medical Research Institute, University
Dr Alec Miners
Lecturer in Health Economics, London of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ms Judith Paget
Chief Executive, Caerphilly Local Health Board, Wales
Dr Ann Richardson
Lay Member
Mr Mike Spencer
General Manager, Clinical Support Services, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust
Dr Simon Thomas
Consultant Physician, General Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust
Mr David Thomson
Lay Member
Dr Norman Vetter
Reader, Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff
Dr Paul Watson
Director of Commissioning, East of England Strategic Health Authority
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.
Eleanor Donegan and Elangovan Gajraj
Technical Leads
Janet Robertson
Technical Adviser
Alana Miller
Project Manager