7 Appraisal Committee members, and NICE project team
Appraisal Committee members
The Appraisal Committee is a standing advisory committee of the Institute. 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, each with a chair and vice-chair. 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.
Professor David Barnett
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester
Dr David W Black
Director of Public Health, Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust
Mr David Chandler
Chief Executive, Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Alliance
Mr Peter Clarke
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Merseyside
Dr Christine Davey
Senior Researcher, North Yorkshire Alliance R & D Unit
Dr Mike Davies
Consultant Physician, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Mr Richard Devereaux-Phillips
Public Affairs Manager, Medtronic
Dr Rachel A Elliott
Lord Trent Professor of Medicines and Health, University of Nottingham
Mrs Eleanor Grey
Lay member
Dr Peter Jackson
Clinical Pharmacologist, University of Sheffield
Professor Peter Jones
Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Enterprise, Keele University
Ms Rachel Lewis
Nurse Advisor to the Department of Health
Dr Damien Longson
Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry, North Manchester General Hospital
Professor Jonathan Michaels
Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Sheffield
Dr Eugene Milne
Deputy Medical Director, North East Strategic Health Authority
Dr Simon Mitchell
Consultant Neonatal Paediatrician, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
Dr Richard Alexander Nakielny
Consultant Radiologist, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Dr Katherine Payne
Health Economics Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Dr Danielle Preedy
Senior Programme Manager, National Collaborating Centre for Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation
Dr Martin J Price
Head of Outcomes Research, Janssen-Cilag
Dr Philip Rutledge
Consultant in Medicines Management, NHS Lothian
Dr Surinder Sethi
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, North West Specialised Services Commissioning Team
Professor Andrew Stevens
Chair of Appraisal Committee C
Dr Cathryn Thomas
Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham
Dr William Turner
Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
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.
Rebecca Trowman
Technical Lead
Joanna Richardson
Technical Adviser
Chris Feinmann
Project Manager