6 Appraisal committee members, guideline representatives and NICE project team
Appraisal committee members
The appraisal committees are standing advisory committees of NICE. Members are appointed for a 3‑year term. 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.
The following is a list of the committee members who took part in the discussions for this appraisal.
Dr Amanda Adler (Chair)
Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Dr Ray Armstrong
Consultant Rheumatologist, Southampton General Hospital
Dr Jeff Aronson
Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, University Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford
Professor John Cairns
Professor of Health Economics Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Professor Peter Crome
Consultant Geriatrician and Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Dr Neil Iosson
General Practitioner
Anne Joshua
Associate Director of Pharmacy, NHS Direct
Dr Rebecca Kearney
Clinical Lecturer, University of Warwick
Terence Lewis
Lay Member
Dr Miriam McCarthy
Consultant, Public Health, Public Health Agency
Dr Elizabeth Murray
Reader in Primary Care, University College London
Professor Stephen Palmer
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dr Sanjeev Patel
Consultant Physician & Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology, St Helier University Hospital
Dr Danielle Preedy
Lay Member
Dr John Rodriguez
Assistant Director of Public Health, NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent
Alun Roebuck
Consultant Nurse in Critical and Acute Care, United Lincolnshire NHS Trust
Roderick Smith
Chief Finance Officer, Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group
Cliff Snelling
Lay Member
Marta Soares
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Professor Andrew Stevens
Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
David Thomson
Lay Member
Dr Nicky Welton
Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics/Health Technology assessment, University of Bristol