Committee Members: Dr Jane Adam, Radiologist, St George's Hospital, London; Professor AE Ades, MRC Senior Scientist, MRC Health Services Research Collaboration, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol; Anne Allison, Nurse Clinical Adviser, Healthcare Commission; Dr Tom Aslan, General Practitioner, Stockwell, London; Professor David Barnett (Chair) Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester; Mrs Elizabeth Brain, Lay Member; Dr Karl Claxton, Health Economist, University of York; Dr Richard Cookson, Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, School of Medicine Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia; Mrs Fiona Duncan, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool; Professor Christopher Eccleston, Director Pain Management Unit, University of Bath; Dr Paul Ewings, Statistician, Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust, Taunton; Professor John Geddes, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, University of Oxford; Mr John Goulston, Director of Finance, Barts and the London NHS Trust; Mr Adrian Griffin, Health Outcomes Manager, Johnson & Johnson Medical Ltd; Ms Linda Hands, Clinical Reader in Surgery, University of Oxford; Dr Rowan Hillson, Consultant Physician, Diabeticare, The Hillingdon Hospital; Professor Philip Home (Vice Chair) Professor of Diabetes Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Dr Terry John, General Practitioner, The Firs, London; Professor Richard Lilford, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham; 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; Ms Judith Paget, Chief Executive, Caerphilly Local Health Board, Wales; Dr Ann Richardson, Lay Member; Mr Mike Spencer, General Manager, Clinical Support Services, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust; Dr Simon Thomas, Consultant Physician, General Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust; Mr David Thomson, Lay Member; Dr Norman Vetter, Reader, Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff; Dr Paul Watson, Director of Commissioning, East of England Strategic Health Authority