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. A list of the committee members who took part in the discussions for this appraisal appears below. There are four 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.
Dr Kathryn Abel
Reader and Consultant Psychiatrist/Director of Centre for Women's Mental Health, University of Manchester
Dr David Black
Director of Public Health, Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust, Chesterfield
Dr Daniele Bryden
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine/Anaesthesia, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Andrew Burnett
Director for Health Improvement/Medical Director, NHS Barnet, London
David Chandler
Lay member
Dr Mary Cooke
Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester
Dr Chris Cooper
General Practitioner, St John's Way Medical Centre, London
Professor Peter Crome
Consultant Physician,Bucknall Hospital. Stoke-on-Trent
Dr Christine Davey
Senior Researcher, North Yorkshire Alliance Research and Development Unit, York
Richard Devereaux-Phillips
Public Affairs and Reimbursement Manager UK and Ireland, Medtronic, Watford
Dr Rachel A Elliott
Lord Trent Professor of Medicines and Health, University of Nottingham
Dr Wasim Hanif
Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University Hospital Birmingham
Dr Alan Haycox
Reader in Health Economics, University of Liverpool Management School
Dr Peter Jackson
Clinical Pharmacologist, University of Sheffield
Henry Marsh
Consultant Neurosurgeon, St George's Hospital, London
Professor Gary McVeigh
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Queens University Belfast and Consultant Physician, Belfast City Hospital
Dr Eugene Milne
Deputy Regional Director of Public Health, North East Strategic Health Authority, Newcastle upon Tyne
Dr Neil Myers
General Practitioner, Glasgow
Dr Richard Nakielny
Consultant Radiologist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
Dr Katherine Payne
Health Economics Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Dr Danielle Preedy
Lay member
Dr Peter Selby
Consultant Physician, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Surinder Sethi
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, North West Specialised Services Commissioning Team, Warrington
Professor Andrew Stevens
Chair of Appraisal Committee C, Professor of Public Health, University of Birmingham
Dr Matt Stevenson
Technical Director, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield
Professor Paul Trueman
Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University, Uxbridge
Dr Judith Wardle
Lay member
Guideline representative
The following individual, representing the Guideline Development Group responsible for developing NICE's clinical guideline related to this topic, was invited to attend the meeting to observe and to contribute as an adviser to the committee.
Peter Pratt
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
NICE project team
Each technology appraisal is assigned to a team consisting of one or more health technology analysts (who act as technical leads for the appraisal), a technical adviser and a project manager.
Fay McCracken/Scott Goulden
Technical Leads
Fiona Rinaldi
Technical Adviser
Lori Farrar
Project Manager