Appendix A Membership of the Programme Development Group (PDG), the NICE project team and external contractors

Appendix A Membership of the Programme Development Group (PDG), the NICE project team and external contractors

Programme Development Group

PDG membership is multidisciplinary, comprising public health practitioners, clinicians, local authority officers, teachers, social care professionals, representatives of the public, academics and technical experts as follows.

Amar Abass
Chief Executive, Youth Action (North West); Community member

Penny Barber
Chief Executive, Brook Birmingham

Simran Chawla
Commissioning Co-ordinator, Young Peoples' Sexual Health, London Borough of Ealing

Lucy Dallimore
GP and staff grade in GU Medicine and Family Planning, Honorary University Fellow, Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth

Ros Delaney
Senior Lecturer, Sexual Health & Midwifery, University of Greenwich

Alaina Dingwall
Community member

Pat Farley
Specialist Sexual Health Practitioner – Children and Young Peoples' Service, Hull PCT

Karen Harrison
Community member

Ruth Hine
Specialist Contraceptive and Sexual Health Nurse, Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT

Lesley Hoggart
Principal Research Fellow, School of Health and Social Care, University of Greenwich

Rhiannon Holder MBE
Community member

Ifigeneia Mavranezouli
Senior Health Economist, The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health

Pauline McGough
Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sandyford, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

Karen Spooner
Assistant Director, Community Pharmacy Commissioning, NHS Barnet

Faye Sutton
Teenage Pregnancy Link-Midwife, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust; PhD Researcher and Associate Lecturer, University of Plymouth

Kim Tanner
Sexual Health Specialist Nurse and Manager of Time 4U (Young Peoples' Sexual Health) Services in Worcestershire

Anne Weyman OBE
(Chair) Member of GMC, Non-executive Director, NHS Islington

Babs Young
Independent Nurse Adviser, specialising in children's and young peoples' public health

NICE project team

Mike Kelly
CPH Director

Tricia Younger
Associate Director

Chris Carmona
Lead Analyst

Kay Nolan
Analyst

Clare Wohlgemuth
Analyst

Alastair Fischer
Technical Adviser Health Economics

Rachael Paterson/Sue Jelley
Senior Editors

Alison Lake/Susan Burlace
Editors

External contractors

Evidence reviews

Review 1: 'Mapping review: contraceptive services for socially disadvantaged young people' was carried out by the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. The principal authors were: Lindsay Blank, Nick Payne, Louise Guillaume, Sue Baxter and Hazel Pilgrim.

Review 2: 'A review of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of contraceptive services and interventions to encourage use of those services for socially disadvantaged young people: services and interventions in education settings' was carried out by ScHARR at the University of Sheffield. The principal authors were: Lindsay Blank, Nick Payne, Louise Guillaume, Susan Baxter and Hazel Pilgrim.

Review 3: 'A review of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of contraceptive services and interventions to encourage use of those services for socially disadvantaged young people: views review' was carried out by ScHARR at the University of Sheffield. The principal authors were: Susan Baxter, Lindsay Blank, Nick Payne, Louise Guillaume and Hazel Pilgrim.

Review 4: 'A review of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of contraceptive services and interventions to encourage use of those services for socially disadvantaged young people: services and interventions in healthcare settings' was carried out by ScHARR at the University of Sheffield. The principal authors were: Lindsay Blank, Nick Payne, Louise Guillaume, Hazel Pilgrim and Sue Baxter.

Review 5: 'A review of the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of contraceptive services and interventions to encourage use of those services for socially disadvantaged young people: services and interventions in community settings' was carried out by ScHARR at the University of Sheffield. The principal authors were: Lindsay Blank, Nick Payne, Louise Guillaume, Hazel Pilgrim and Sue Baxter.

Cost effectiveness

The economic analysis 'Modelling the cost effectiveness of interventions to encourage young people, especially socially disadvantaged young people, to use contraceptives and contraceptive services' was carried out by ScHARR at the University of Sheffield. The principal authors were: Hazel Pilgrim, Nick Payne, Jim Chilcott, Lindsay Blank, Louise Guillaume and Sue Baxter.

Fieldwork

The fieldwork 'Fieldwork for draft guidance on contraceptive services focusing on socially disadvantaged young people' was carried out by GHK.

Expert testimony

Expert paper 1: 'Improving healthcare for young people' by Lily Makurah, Department of Health.

Expert paper 2: 'Teenage Pregnancy Strategy: NICE meeting: 17 September' by Alison Hadley, Teenage Pregnancy Unit, Department for Children Schools and Families.

Expert paper 3: 'Access to Health Care: How do we reach vulnerable groups? Learning from the Teenage Health Demonstration Sites' by Catherine Dennison, Department of Health.

Expert paper 4: 'Contribution to NICE guidance on contraceptive services focusing on socially disadvantaged young people' by Kate Guthrie, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Partnership, Hull and East Yorkshire PCT.

Expert paper 5: 'Department of Health evidence: NICE guidance on contraception focusing on socially disadvantaged young people' by Kate Laverty, Judith Hind, Jacquie Rowlands, Department of Health.

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