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
Jane
Adam
(Chair)
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, St George's Hospital, London
Professor
A
E
Ades
Professor of Public Health Science, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol
Dr
Jeremy
Braybrooke
Consultant Medical Oncologist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Dr
Fiona
Duncan
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Mrs
Eleanor
Grey
Lay member
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. Bristol
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, Uxbridge
Dr
Anne
McCune
Consultant Hepatologist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Professor
John
McMurray
Professor of Medical Cardiology, University of Glasgow
Dr
Alec
Miners
Lecturer in Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ms
Pamela
Rees
Lay member
Dr
Ann
Richardson
Lay member
Dr
Paul
Robinson
Medical Director, Merck Sharp & Dohme
Ms
Ellen
Rule
Programme Director, NHS Bristol
Mr
Stephen
Sharp
Senior Statistician, MRC Epidemiology Unit
Dr
Peter
Sims
General Practitioner, Devon
Mr
Cliff
Snelling
Lay member
Mr
Mike
Spencer
Assistant Director Patient Experience, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Mrs
Amelia
Stecher
Associate Director of Individual Funding Requests and Clinical Effectiveness, NHS Kent and Medway
Mr
David
Thomson
Lay member
Dr
John
Watkins
Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Cardiff University and National Public Health Service Wales
Dr
Anthony
S
Wierzbicki
Consultant in Metabolic Medicine and Chemical Pathology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London
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.
Helen
Tucker
Technical Lead
Nicola
Hay
Technical Adviser
Bijal
Joshi
Project Manager