Committee Members: Professor A E Ades, Professor of Public Health Science, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol; Dr Amanda Adler, Consultant Physician, Cambridge University Hospitals Trust; Ms Anne Allison, Nurse Clinical Adviser, Healthcare Commission; Dr Tom Aslan, General Practitioner, The Hampstead Group Practice, London; Professor David Barnett (Chair), Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Leicester Royal Infirmary; Dr Matt Bradley, Head of HTA and Business Environment, Sanofi-Aventis; Mrs Elizabeth Brain, Lay Member; Mr David Chandler, Lay Member; Dr Karl Claxton, Professor of Health Economics, Department of Economics & Related Research, the University of York; Dr Simon Dixon, Reader in Health Economics, University of Sheffield; Mrs Fiona Duncan, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool; Dr Paul Ewings, Statistician, Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton; Mr John Goulston, Chief Executive, Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust; Ms Eleanor Grey, Lay Member; Dr Richard Harling, Director of Public Health, Worcestershire PCT and Worcestershire County Council; Professor Philip Home (Vice Chair), Professor of Diabetes Medicine, Newcastle University; Dr Vincent Kirkbride, Consultant Neonatologist, Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Sheffield; Dr Simon Maxwell, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology and Honorary Consultant Physician, Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh; Dr Alec Miners, Lecturer in Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr Rubin Minhas, General Practitioner; Dr Ann Richardson, Lay Member; Mrs Angela Schofield, Chairman, Bournemouth and Poole Teaching PCT; Mr Mike Spencer, General Manager, Facilities and Clinical Support Services, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust; Mr Cliff Snelling, Lay Member; Dr Simon Thomas, Consultant Physician and Reader in Therapeutics, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University; Mr David Thomson, Lay Member; Mr William Turner, Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital; Dr Norman Vetter, Reader, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Cardiff