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. 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
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester
Dr David W Black
Director of Public Health, Derbyshire County PCT
Mr Mark Campbell
Director of Standards, Bury PCT
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
Mr Richard Devereaux-Phillips
Public Affairs Manager, Medtronic Limited
Professor Rachel A Elliott
Lord Trent Professor of Medicines and Health, the University of Nottingham
Dr Catherine Jackson
Professor of Primary Care Medicine, University of St Andrews
Dr Peter Jackson
Clinical Pharmacologist, the University of Sheffield
Professor Peter Jones
Pro Vice Chancellor for Research & Enterprise, Keele University Professor of Statistics, Keele University
Mr Henry Marsh
Consultant Neurosurgeon, St Georges Hospital, London
Professor Jonathan Michaels
Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Sheffield
Dr Eugene Milne
Deputy Medical Director, North East Strategic Health Authority
Dr Simon Mitchell
Consultant Neonatal Paediatrician, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
Dr Richard Alexander Nakielny
Consultant Radiologist, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Mrs Ruth Oliver-Williams
Head of Nursing / Quality Improvement Lead Surgical Services, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby
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
Mr Miles Scott
Chief Executive, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Surinder Sethi
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, North West Specialised Services Commissioning Team
Professor Andrew Stevens (Chair)
Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Dr Matt Stevenson
Technical Director, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield
Dr Cathryn Thomas
Associate Professor and General Practitioner, 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.
Fay McCracken
Technical Lead
Joanna Richardson and Rebecca Trowman
Technical Adviser
Laura Malone
Project Manager