NICE clinical guidelines
Issued: October 2008
CG74

Surgical site infection: Prevention and treatment of surgical site infection

This is an extract from the guidance. The complete guidance is available at guidance.nice.org.uk/cg74

Appendix A: The Guideline Development Group

Mark Collier
Lead Nurse/Consultant – Tissue Viability, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

David Evans
Patient/carer member (Safety Engineer and Occupational Hygienist)

Mark Farrington
Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Health Protection Agency, London

Elizabeth Gibbs
Patient/carer member (Teenage Pregnancy Specialist Midwife)

Kate Gould
Clinical Advisor to the GDG, Consultant Microbiologist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Helen Jenkinson
Hygiene Code Implementation Manager, Healthcare Commission, London

Kathryn Kitson
Team Leader for Orthopaedic and Trauma Theatres, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (stood down December 2007 due to work commitments)

David Leaper
GDG Chair, Visiting Professor, Department of Wound Healing, Cardiff University

Matt Thompson
Professor of Vascular Surgery, St George's Vascular Institute, London

Jennie Wilson
Infection Control Nurse/Programme Leader, Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Service, Health Protection Agency, London

John Black
GDG External advisor, Consultant Surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons

Alice Jones
GDG External Advisor, Senior Sister in General and Emergency Surgery, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Grainne Nicholson
GDG External Advisor, Consultant Anaesthetist, St George's Hospital, London

Shona Burman-Roy
Systematic Reviewer, NCC-WCH

Katherine Cullen
Health Economist, NCC-WCH

Eva Gautam-Aitken
Project Manager, NCC-WCH

Paul Jacklin
Senior Health Economist, NCC-WCH

Ana Palanca
Research Assistant, NCC-WCH

Edmund Peston
Document Supply Coordinator, NCC-WCH

Roxana Rehman
Work Programme Coordinator, NCC-WCH

Andrew Welsh
Freelance copy-editor and typesetter, NCC-WCH

Martin Whittle
Clinical Co-Director NCC-WCH

Danielle Worster
Information Scientist NCC-WCH