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 Ltd; Mrs Elizabeth Brain, Lay Member; Mr David Chandler, Lay Member; Simon Dixon, Reader in Health Economics, University of Sheffield; Mrs Fiona Duncan, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Anaesthetic Department, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool; Mr John Goulston, Chief Executive, Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust; Mrs Eleanor Grey, Lay Member; Professor Philip Home (Vice Chair), Professor of Diabetes Medicine, Newcastle University; Dr Vincent Kirkbride, Consultant Neonatologist, Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Sheffield; Dr Alec Miners, Lecturer in Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; 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; Dr Simon Thomas, Consultant Physician and Reader in Therapeutics, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University; Mr David Thomson, Lay Member