6 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)
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 Gerardine Bryant
GP, Swadlincote, Derbyshire
Matthew Campbell‑Hil
Lay member
Dr Peter Heywood
Consultant Neurologist, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol
Dr Sharon Saint Lamont
Head of Clinical Quality, NHS England (North)
Mr Cliff Snelling
Lay member
Dr Ian Lewin
Honorary Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, North Devon District Hospital
Dr Louise Longworth
Reader in Health Economics, HERG, Brunel University
Dr Alec Miners
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Pamela Rees
Lay member
Dr Ann Richardson
Lay member
Dr Paul Robinson
Medical Director, Merck Sharp & Dohme
Ellen Rule
Director of Transformation and Service Redesign, Gloucestershire CCG
Stephen Sharp
Senior Statistician, University of Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit
Dr Peter Sims
GP, Devon
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