8 Appraisal Committee members and NICE project team
Appraisal Committee members
The Appraisal Committee is a standing advisory committee of NICE. Its 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. The Appraisal Committee meets 3 times a month except in December, when there are no meetings. The Committee membership is split into 3 branches, with the chair, vice-chair and a number of other members between them attending meetings of all branches. Each branch considers its own list of technologies and ongoing topics are not moved between the branches.
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
Professor David Barnett (Chair)
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester
Dr Peter Barry
Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Child Health, Leicester Royal Infirmary
Mr Brian Buckley
Vice Chairman, InContact
Professor Mike Campbell
Statistician, Institute of General Practice and Primary Care, Sheffield
Dr Mark Chakravarty
Head of Government Affairs and NHS Policy, Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals (UK) Ltd, Egham, Surrey
Dr Peter I Clark
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Wirral, Merseyside
Dr Mike Davies
Consultant Physician, University Department of Medicine and Metabolism, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Mr Richard Devereaux-Phillips
Public Affairs Manager, Medtronic Ltd
Professor Cam Donaldson
PPP Foundation Professor of Health Economics, School of Population and Health Sciences and Business School, Business School – Economics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Professor Jack Dowie
Health Economist, London School of Hygiene
Professor Gary A Ford (Vice Chair)
Professor of Pharmacology of Old Age, Consultant Physician, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Fergus Gleeson
Consultant Radiologist, The Churchill Hospital, Oxford
Ms Sally Gooch
Director of Nursing, Mid-Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, Chelmsford
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh
Professor of Primary Healthcare, University College London
Miss Linda Hands
Clinical Reader in Surgery, University of Oxford
Professor Peter Jones
Professor of Statistics and Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University
Professor Robert Kerwin
Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Ms Joy Leavesley
Senior Clinical Governance Manager, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust
Ms Ruth Lesirge
Previously Director, Mental Health Foundation, London
Ms Rachel Lewis
Staff Nurse (Nephrology), Hull Royal Infirmary
Dr Ruairidh Milne
Senior Lecturer in Public Health, National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment, University of Southampton
Dr Neil Milner
General Medical Practitioner, Sheffield
Dr Rubin Minhas
General Practitioner with a Special Interest in Coronary Heart Disease, Primary Care CHD Lead, Medway PCT and Swale PCT
Mr Muntzer Mughal
Consultant Surgeon, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Professor Mark Sculpher
Professor of Health Economics, University of York
Dr Ken Stein
Senior Lecturer, Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), University of Exeter
Professor Andrew Stevens (Chair)
Professor of Public Health, University of Birmingham
NICE Project Team
Each appraisal of a technology is assigned to a Health Technology Analyst and a Technology Appraisal Project Manager.
Eleanor Donegan
Technical Lead
Dr Sarah Cumbers
Project Manager