Stroke quality standard: Topic Expert Group
A Topic Expert Group was established to advise on the content of the quality standard. This group met twice, with additional interaction taking place via email.
Topic Expert Group members were selected by inviting people who had previously been involved in guideline development and commissioning groups and by nomination from the National Collaborating Centres and Royal Colleges. National Collaborating Centre directors and representatives on the relevant Guideline Development Group were invited to chair the Topic Expert Groups.
Mr Alan Bowmaster
Patient/lay representative
Ms Erica Bradley
Speech and Language Therapy Coordinator, Sheffield Primary Care Trust
Mrs Diana Day
Stroke Nurse Consultant, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and East of England Stroke Networks
Ms Andrea Dayson
Assistant Director of Commissioning, NHS Bury and Greater Manchester & Cheshire Cardiac Network
Professor Avril Drummond
Associate Professor in Rehabilitation, University of Nottingham
Mr Steve Hatton
Emergency Care Practitioner, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust and College of Paramedics
Ms Alex Hoffman
Stroke Programme Manager, Royal College of Physicians
Ms Helen Hosker
Clinical Commissioning Lead for Stroke and Falls, NHS Manchester
Mr Hugh Janes
Practice Based Commissioning Manager, Hampshire Primary Care Trust
Mr Joe Korner
Patient/lay representative
Mrs Jill Lockhart
National Improvement Lead: Stroke Rehabilitation, Stroke Improvement Programme, NHS Improvement
Ms Sarah McDiarmid
NHS Information Centre representative
Professor Sumaira Macdonald
Consultant Vascular Radiologist and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Ms Jill Parnham
Operations Director, National Clinical Guidelines Centre, Royal College of Physicians
Mrs Julie Rigby
Consultant Physiotherapist, Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology/Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
Dr Anthony Rudd (Chair)
Consultant Stroke Physician - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Pippa Tyrrell
Consultant Physician, University of Manchester
Mrs Caroline Wright
Senior Dietician, Leeds Teaching Hospital, British Dietetic Association
- Topic Expert Group induction - minutes
- Topic Expert Group first meeting - minutes
- Topic Expert Group second meeting - minutes
For more information on the Topic Expert Groups please refer to 'Developing NICE quality standards: interim process guide'.
This page was last updated: 29 June 2010

