8 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, Queens 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, Kingsland, Herefordshire
Professor David Bowen
Consultant Haematologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Matthew Bradley
Therapy Area Leader, Global Health Outcomes, GlaxoSmithKline
Dr Gerardine Bryant
GP, Swadlincote, Derbyshire
John Cairns
Professor of Health Economics Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Ian Campbell
Honorary Consultant Physician, Llandough Hospital, Cardiff
Ms Tracey Cole
Lay member
Dr Ian Davidson
Lecturer in Rehabilitation, University of Manchester
Professor Simon Dixon
Professor of Health Economics, University of Sheffield
Dr Martin Duerden
Assistant Medical Director, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, North Wales
Mrs Susan Dutton
Senior Medical Statistician, Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit
Dr Alexander Dyker
Consultant Physician, Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle
Mr Christopher Earl
Surgical Care Practitioner, Wessex Neurological Centre at Southampton University Hospital
Mrs Gillian Ells
Prescribing Advisor – Commissioning, NHS Hastings and Rother and NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald
Dr Andrew England
Senior Lecturer, Directorate of Radiography, University of Salford
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 Paul Hepple
GP, Edinburgh
Professor John Hutton
Professor of Health Economics, University of York
Professor Steven Julious
Professor in Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield
Dr Tim Kinnaird
Lead Interventional Cardiologist, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
Mr Warren Linley
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, Bangor University
Dr Malcolm Oswald
Lay member
Professor Femi Oyebode
Professor of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist, The National Centre for Mental Health
Professor Stephen Palmer
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Dr John Radford
Director of Public Health, Rotherham Primary Care Trust and Metropolitan Borough Council
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 Development Group responsible for developing NICE's clinical 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
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.
Richard Diaz and Christian Griffiths
Technical Leads
Fiona Pearce and Eleanor Donegan
Technical Advisers
Kate Moore
Project Manager