NICE technology appraisal guidance
Issued: May 2005
TA89

The use of autologous chondrocyte implantation for the treatment of cartilage defects in the knee joints

This is an extract from the guidance. The complete guidance is available at guidance.nice.org.uk/ta89

Appendix A. Appraisal Committee members and NICE project team

A. Appraisal Committee members

NOTE 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 three times a month except in December, when there are no meetings. The committee is split into three branches. In order to ensure consistency, the chair of each branch is also a member of a branch of which he is not 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.

Ms Julie Acred
Chief Executive, Derby Hospitals, Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Darren Ashcroft
Senior Clinical Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester

Professor David Barnett
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester

Dr Peter Barry
Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, Leicester Royal Infirmary

Mr Brian Buckley
Vice Chairman, InContact

Professor Mike Campbell
Statistician, Institute of General Practice & Primary Care, Sheffield

Dr Mark Chakravarty
Head of Government Affairs and NHS Policy, Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals (UK) Ltd, Egham, Surrey

Dr Peter I Clark
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, Wirral, Merseyside

Ms Donna Covey
Chief Executive, National Asthma Campaign

Dr Mike Davies
Consultant Physician, University Department of Medicine & Metabolism, Manchester Royal Infirmary

Professor Jack Dowie
Health Economist, London School of Hygiene

Professor Gary A Ford (Vice Chair)
Professor of Pharmacology of Old Age/Consultant Physician, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Fergus Gleeson
Consultant Radiologist, The Churchill Hospital, Oxford

Ms Sally Gooch
Director of Nursing, Mid Essex Hospital Services Trust

Professor Trisha Greenhalgh
Professor of Primary Health Care, University College London

Miss Linda Hands
Clinical Reader in Surgery, University of Oxford

Professor Robert Kerwin
Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, London

Ms Joy Leavesley
Senior Clinical Governance Manager, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust

Ms Rachel Lewis
Staff Nurse (Nephrology), Hull Royal Infirmary

Professor Jonathan Michaels
Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Sheffield

Dr Ruairidh Milne
Senior Lecturer in Public Health, National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment, University of Southampton

Dr Neil Milner
General Medical Practitioner, Sheffield

Dr Rubin Minhas
General Practitioner with a Special Interest in Coronary Heart Disease, Primary Care CHD Lead, Medway PCT & Swale PCT

Mr Richard Devereaux-Phillips
Public Affairs Manager, Medtronic Ltd

Professor Mark Sculpher
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Dr Ken Stein
Senior Lecturer, Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), University of Exeter

Professor Andrew Stevens (Chair)
Professor of Public Health, University of Birmingham

Mr Miles Scott
Chief Executive, Harrogate Health Care NHS Trust

B. NICE Project Team

Each appraisal of a technology is assigned to a Health Technology Analyst and a Technology Appraisal Project Manager within the Institute.

Mr Francis Ruiz
Technical Lead, NICE project team

Dr Sarah Cumbers
Project Manager, NICE project team