Appendix A: Appraisal committee members and NICE project team
Appraisal committee members
The appraisal committee is a standing advisory committee of the Institute. Its 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. The appraisal committee meets 3 times a month except in December, when there are no meetings. The committee membership is split into 3 branches, each with a chair and vice-chair. Each branch considers its own list of technologies and ongoing topics are not moved between the branches.
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 David Barnett (chair, first appraisal committee meeting)
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester
Dr David W Black
Director of Public Health, Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust
Mr Brian Buckley
Chairman, Incontact
Professor Mike Campbell
Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Sheffield
Mr David Chandler
Lay member
Mr Peter Clarke
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Merseyside
Dr Christine Davey
Senior Researcher, North Yorkshire Alliance R&D Unit
Dr Mike Davies
Consultant Physician, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Mr Richard Devereaux-Phillips
Public Affairs Manager, Medtronic Ltd
Professor Rachel A Elliott
Lord Trent Professor of Medicines and Health, the University of Nottingham
Dr Dyfrig Hughes
Reader in Pharmacoeconomics, Centre for Economics and Policy in Health, Bangor University
Dr Peter Jackson
Consultant Physician, Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Dr Damien Longson
Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry, North Manchester General Hospital
Professor Jonathan Michaels
Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Sheffield
Dr Eugene Milne
Deputy Medical Director, North East Strategic Health Authority
Dr Katherine Payne
Health Economics Research Fellow, The University of Manchester
Dr Danielle Preedy
Lay member
Dr Martin J Price
Head of Outcomes Research, Janssen-Cilag Ltd
Dr Philip Rutledge
Consultant in Medicines Management, NHS Lothian
Dr Surinder Sethi
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, North West Specialised Services Commissioning Team
Professor Andrew Stevens (chair, second appraisal committee meeting)
Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Dr Cathryn Thomas
Associate Professor and General Practitioner, Department of Primary Care & General Practice, University of Birmingham