7 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.
Dr Jane Adam (Chair)
Consultant Radiologist, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, St George's Hospital, London
Professor Iain Squire (Vice‑Chair)
Consultant Physician, University Hospitals of Leicester
Dr Graham Ash
Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Jeremy Braybrooke
Consultant Medical Oncologist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Gerardine Bryant
GP, Swadlincote, Derbyshire
Professor Aileen Clarke
Professor of Public Health and Health Services Research, University of Warwick
Dr Andrew England
Senior Lecturer, Directorate of Radiography, University of Salford
Dr Ian Lewin
Honorary Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, North Devon District Hospital
Dr Anne McCune
Consultant Hepatologist, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Professor John McMurray
Professor of Medical Cardiology, University of Glasgow
Dr Alec Miners
Senior lecturer in Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Mohit Misra
GP, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London
Ms Sarah Parry
Clinical Nurse Specialist – Paediatric Pain Management, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Ms Pamela Rees
Lay Member
Ms Ellen Rule
Director of Transformation and Service Redesign, Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
Mr Stephen Sharp
Senior Statistician, University of Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit
Dr Brian Shine
Consultant Chemical Pathologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Dr Peter Sims
GP, Devon
Mr David Thomson
Lay member
Dr John Watkins
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University; Consultant in Public Health Medicine, National Public Health Service Wales
Professor Olivia Wu
Professor of Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow
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 first ACD meeting to observe and to contribute as advisers to the Committee.
Dr Jon Packham
Consultant Rheumatologist
Dr Louise Warburton
GP with a Special Interest in Rheumatology
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.
Caroline Hall and Sophie Laurenson
Technical Leads
Joanna Richardson
Technical Adviser
Bijal Joshi
Project Manager