Committee Members: Professor Keith Abrams, Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Leicester; Dr Ray Armstrong, Consultant Rheumatologist, Southampton General Hospital; Dr Jeff Aronson, Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, University Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford; Dr Darren Ashcroft, Reader in Medicines Usage and Safety, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester; Professor David Barnett (Chair) Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Leicester; Professor Stirling Bryan, Head, Department of Health Economics, University of Birmingham; Professor John Cairns, Professor of Health Economics, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr Mark Charkravarty, Director, External Relations, Procter and Gamble Health Care, Europe; Professor Jack Dowie, Health Economist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Ms Lynn Field, Nurse Director, Pan Birmingham Cancer Network; Professor Christopher Fowler, Professor of Surgical Education, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London; Dr Fergus Gleeson, Consultant Radiologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford; Ms Sally Gooch, Independent Nursing and Healthcare Consultant; Mrs Barbara Greggains, Lay member; Mr Sanjay Gupta, Former Service Manager in Stroke, Gastroenterology, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust; Mr Terence Lewis, Lay member; Professor Gary McVeigh, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Queens University, Belfast; Dr Ruairidh Milne, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology, University of Southampton; Dr Neil Milner, General Medical Practitioner, Tramways Medical Centre, Sheffield; Dr Rubin Minhas, General Practitioner, Coronary Heart Disease Clinical Lead, Medway PCT; Dr John Pounsford, Consultant Physician, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol; Dr Rosalind Ramsay, Consultant Psychiatrist, Adult Mental Health Services, Maudsley Hospital, London; Dr Stephen Saltissi, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Liverpool University Hospital; Dr Lindsay Smith, General Practitioner, East Somerset Research Consortium; Mr Roderick Smith, Finance Director, West Kent PCT; Mr Cliff Snelling, Lay member; Professor Ken Stein, Professor of Public Health, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter; Professor Andrew Stevens, Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham; Dr Rod Taylor, Associate Professor in Health Services Research, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth