NICE clinical guidelines
Issued: May 2009
CG88

Low back pain: Early management of persistent non-specific low back pain

This is an extract from the guidance and may be misleading if read alone. The complete guidance is available at guidance.nice.org.uk/cg88

Appendix A: The Guideline Development Group

Professor Martin Underwood (Chair)
Professor of Primary Care Research, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick

Professor Paul Watson (Clinical Advisor)
Professor of Pain Management and Rehabilitation, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester

Mrs Elaine Buchanan
Consultant Physiotherapist, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford

Dr Paul Coffey
General Practitioner, Eynsham Medical Group, Witney, Oxon

Mr Peter Dixon
Chiropractor Chairman, General Chiropractic Council, London

Mrs Christine Drummond
Patient representative

Mrs Margaret Flanagan
Nurse Clinician, Western Avenue Medical Centre, Chester

Professor Charles Greenough
Consultant Spinal Surgeon, James Cook University, Middlesbrough

Dr Mark Griffiths
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Halton and St Helens PCT

Dr Jacqueline Halliday Bell
Medical Inspector, Health and Safety Executive, Birmingham

Dr Dries Hettinga
Patient representative, Head of Research and Policy, BackCare

Mr Steven Vogel
Vice Principal (Research and Quality), British School of Osteopathy, London

Dr David Walsh
Associate Professor, Kings Mill Hospital, Sutton in Ashfield

Co-opted GDG members

The following people attended meetings at which their expertise was required.

Dr Michael Cummings
Medical Director, British Medical Acupuncture Society

Mr Ray Langford
Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care

Gill Ritchie
Guideline Lead, National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care

Pauline Savigny
Health Services Research Fellow, National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care

Nicola Brown
Health Services Research Fellow, National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care (from May 2007 to October 2007)

Stefanie Kuntze
Health Economist, National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care

David Hill
Project Manager, National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care

Chris Rule
Project Manager, National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care (from August 2006 to September 2007)

Marian Cotterell
Information Scientist, National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care