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 Darren Ashcroft
Senior Clinical Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester
Dr Matthew Bradley
Value Demonstration Director, AstraZeneca
Professor Usha Chakravarthy
Professor of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, The Queen's University of Belfast
Professor Peter Clark (Chair)
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology
Dr Ian Davidson
Lecturer in Rehabilitation, University of Manchester
Professor Simon Dixon
Professor of Health Economics, University of Sheffield
Dr Martin Duerden
Medical Director, Conwy Local Health Board
Dr Alexander Dyker
Consultant Physician, Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology
Dr Jon Fear
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Head of Healthcare Effectiveness NHS Leeds
Paula Ghaneh
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, University of Liverpool
Susan Griffin
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Professor Carol Haigh
Professor in Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Kevin Hardy
Consultant Physician, St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Alison Hawdale
Lay member
Professor John Hutton
Professor of Health Economics, University of York
Professor Peter Jones
Pro Vice Chancellor for Research & Enterprise, Keele University
Professor of Statistics, Keele University
Dr Steven Julious
Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield
Rachel Lewis
Practice Development Manager, Manchester Primary Care Trust
Professor Jonathan Michaels (Vice Chair)
Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Sheffield
Dr Neil Milner
General Medical Practitioner, Tramways Medical Centre
Professor Oluwafemi Oyebode
Professor of Psychiatry & Consultant Psychiatrist, The National Centre for Mental Health
Mike Pinkerton
Chief of Business Development, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
Dr John Radford
Director of Public Health, Rotherham Primary Care Trust
Dr Phillip Rutledge
GP and Consultant in Medicines Management, NHS Lothian
Dr Brian Shine
Consultant Chemical Pathologist, John Radcliffe Hospital
Paddy Storrie
Lay member
Dr Cathryn Patricia Thomas
GP and Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
Mike Wallace
Health Economics & Reimbursement Director, Johnson & Johnson Medical Ltd
Dr Lok Yap
Consultant in Acute Medicine & Clinical Pharmacology, Whittington Hospitals NHS Trust
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.
Fay McCracken
Technical Lead
Helen Knight
Technical Adviser
Kate Moore
Project Manager