About this briefing

About this briefing

Medtech innovation briefings summarise the published evidence and information available for individual medical technologies. The briefings provide information to aid local decision-making by clinicians, managers and procurement professionals.

Medtech innovation briefings aim to present information and critically review the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant evidence, but contain no recommendations and are not formal NICE guidance.

Development of this briefing

This briefing was developed for NICE by King's Technology Evaluation Centre (KiTEC). The Interim process and methods statement sets out the process NICE uses to select topics, and how the briefings are developed, quality-assured and approved for publication.

Project team

  • King's Technology Evaluation Centre, KiTEC

  • Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme, NICE

Peer reviewers and contributors

  • Anastasia Chalkidou, Senior Health Technology Assessor, KiTEC

  • Kate Goddard, Health Technology Assessor, KiTEC

  • Lamprini Kaftantzi, Health Technology Assessor, KiTEC

  • Stephen Keevil, Director, KiTEC

  • Cornelius Lewis, Director, KiTEC

  • Viktoria McMillan, Centre Manager, KiTEC

  • Murali Radhakrishnan, Senior Health Economist, KiTEC

  • Darshan Zala, Health Economist, KiTEC

Specialist commentators

The following specialist commentators provided comments on a draft of this briefing:

  • Tracy Earley, Consultant Nurse - Nutrition, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Dr Timothy Heymann, Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

  • Zillah Leach, Clinical Nurse Specialist - Nutrition Support, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Declarations of interest

Zillah Leach was involved in a study comparing NG and NJ tube placement in stroke patients – CORTRAK EAS was used to place the NJ tubes. In addition, she collaborated with CORPAK MedSystems to produce a training video and app.

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