7 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. 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.
Professor Gary McVeigh (Chair)
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Queen's University Belfast and Consultant Physician, Belfast City Hospital
Dr Lindsay Smith (Vice Chair)
GP, West Coker Surgery, Somerset
Dr Aomesh Bhatt
Regulatory and Medical Affairs Director Europe and North America, Reckitt Benckiser
Dr Andrew Black
GP, Mortimer Medical Practice, Herefordshire
Professor David Bowen
Consultant Haematologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Matthew Bradley
Therapy Area Leader, Global Health Outcomes, GlaxoSmithKline
Dr Ian Campbell
Honorary Consultant Physician, Llandough Hospital, Cardiff
Dr Ian Davidson
Lecturer in Rehabilitation, University of Manchester
Professor Simon Dixon
Professor of Health Economics, University of Sheffield
Mrs Susan Dutton
Senior Medical Statistician, Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit
Dr Alexander Dyker
Consultant Physician, Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle
Mrs Gillian Ells
Prescribing Advisor – Commissioning, NHS Hastings and Rother and NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald
Professor Paula Ghaneh
Professor and Honorary Consultant Surgeon, University of Liverpool
Dr Susan Griffin
Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Professor Carol Haigh
Professor in Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor John Henderson
Professor of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, University of Bristol and Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Dr Tim Kinnaird
Lead Interventional Cardiologist, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
Dr Warren Linley
Independent Pharmacist and Health Economist
Dr Malcolm Oswald
Lay Member
Professor Femi Oyebode
Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist, The National Centre for Mental Health
Dr Mohit Sharma
Consultant in Public Health, Public Health England
Dr Murray Smith
Associate Professor in Social Research in Medicines and Health, University of Nottingham
Guideline representatives
The following individuals, representing the Guideline Committee responsible for developing NICE's guideline related to this topic, were invited to attend the meeting to observe and to contribute as advisers to the Committee.
Professor Matthew Hickman
Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Bristol
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.
Anwar Jilani
Technical Lead
Nwamaka Umeweni and Nicola Hay
Technical Advisers
Kate Moore
Project Manager