Committee Members: Dr Tom Aslan, General Practitioner, Stockwell, London; Professor David Barnett (Chair) Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester; Professor Sir Colin Berry (term of office ended October 2002) Retired Professor of Morbid Anatomy & Histopathology, The Royal London Hospital; Dr Sheila Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge; Professor Rosamund Bryar, Professor of Community & Primary Care Nursing, St Bartholomew's School of Nursing & Midwifery, London; Dr Karl Claxton, Health Economist, University of York; Dr Richard Cookson, Senior Lecturer, Health Economics, School of Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich; Professor Sarah Cowley (term of office ended October 2002) Professor of Community Practice Development, Kings College, London; Professor Nicky Cullum (up to January 2002) Professor in Health Sciences/Director, Centre for Evidence-based Nursing, University of York; Mr Chris Evennett (up to June 2002) Chief Executive, Mid-Hampshire Primary Care Trust, Winchester; Professor Terry Feest, Clinical Director & Consultant Nephrologist, Richard Bright Renal Unit, & Chair of UK Renal Registry, Bristol; Professor Gary A Ford, Professor of Pharmacology of Old Age/Consultant Physician, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust; Ms Jean Gaffin (up to February 2002) Formerly Executive Director National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Service; Mrs Sue Gallagher (term of office ended October 2002) Former Chief Executive, Merton, Sutton & Wandsworth Health Authority, London; Ms Bethan George, Interface Liaison Pharmacist, Tower Hamlets PCT and Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel; Dr Trevor Gibbs, Head, Global Clinical Safety & Pharmacovigilance, GlaxoSmithKline, Greenford; Mr John Goulston, Director of Finance, St Bartholomew's Hospital & the London NHS Trust; Dr Terry John, General Practitioner, The Firs, London; Dr Diane Ketley (term of office ended August 2002) Research into Practice Programme Leader, NHS Modernisation Agency, Leicester; Dr Mayur Lakhani (term of office ended August 2002) General Practitioner, Highgate Surgery, Leicester, & Lecturer, University of Leicester; Mr Muntzer Mughal, Consultant Surgeon, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Chorley; Mr James Partridge, Lay Representative; Chief Executive, Changing Faces, London; Mrs Kathryn Roberts, Nurse Practitioner, Hyde, Cheshire; Professor Philip Routledge, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Wales, Cardiff; Ms Anne Smith, Consultant (Management) and Trustee of the Long-Term Medical Conditions Alliance; Professor Andrew Stevens (Vice-Chair) Professor of Public Health, University of Birmingham; Dr Cathryn Thomas, General Practitioner, & Senior Lecturer, Department of Primary Care & General Practice, University of Birmingham; Dr Norman Vetter, Reader, Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Wales, Cardiff; Dr David Winfield, Consultant Haematologist, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield