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 Jane Adam (Chair)
Consultant Radiologist, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, St George's Hospital, London
Dr Jeremy Braybrooke
Consultant Medical Oncologist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Gerardine Bryant
GP, Swadlincote, Derbyshire
Dr Andrew England
Senior Lecturer, Directorate of Radiography, University of Salford
Dr Mohit Misra
GP, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London
Ms Sarah Parry
Clinical Nurse Specialist – Paediatric Pain Management, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Ms Pamela Rees
Lay Member
Dr Paul Robinson
Medical Director, Merck Sharp & Dohme
Mr Stephen Sharp
Senior Statistician, University of Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit
Dr Brian Shine
Consultant Chemical Pathologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Dr Eldon Spackman
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Mr David Thomson
Lay member
Dr John Watkins
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University; Consultant in Public Health Medicine, National Public Health Service Wales
Dr Nerys Woolacott
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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.
Carl Prescott
Technical Lead
Joanna Richardson
Technical Adviser
Bijal Joshi
Project Manager