NICE needs new members

I just got this email, so i thought i would pass on the info here:

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence seeks new members for its independent advisory committees on the use of health technologies

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is recruiting members to join its fourth independent advisory Appraisal Committee. The Appraisal Committees consider and interpret evidence on the clinical and cost effectiveness of health technologies and formulates recommendations on their use.

Members of all Committees are drawn from the NHS, healthcare professionals, patients and carers, and the academic world. Committee members are not appointed to act as representatives of a particular organisation. They will be expected to apply the experience and judgement from their individual backgrounds to the topics considered by the Committee and in doing so actively contribute to improving the quality and consistency of care provided by the NHS. They will be helping the Institute make some of the most difficult decisions in public life.

We currently have vacancies for Committee members in the following categories
· Statistician
· General Practitioner
· Public Health Physician
· Investigational Physician (e.g. radiologist, heamatologist)
· Health Economist
· Clinical Pharmacist
· Nurse
· Consultant Surgeon
· NHS Management
· Consultant Physician
· Device Industry experience
· Pharmaceutical Industry experience
· Clinical Pharmacologist
· Psychiatrist
· Professions Allied to Medicine (e.g. physiotherapy, clinical psychology, radiography)· Pediatrician

We additionally have three lay member vacancies, for information please click here
Applicants must be prepared to be based in either Manchester or London

TIME COMMITTEMENTS AND CONDITIONS
Committee members attend eleven day-long committee meetings per year as well as an annual Away day. Appraisal Committee meetings are held at the NICE offices either in central London or Manchester, and dates are fixed and made available to Committee members up to a year in advance. Committee membership is unpaid although expenses, including overnight accommodation, are reimbursed. The period of Committee membership is for three years in the first instance.

To access the Person Specification and Application Form & For further queries please contact Lori Farrar, on 0161 870 3152 or at lori.farrar@nice.org.uk

Completed applications should be returned by 5pm 16th March 2009 to tacommittee@nice.org.uk in the first instance, or by post to:

Lori Farrar
Centre for Health Technology Evaluation
NICE
Level 1A
City Tower
Piccadilly Plaza
Manchester, M1 4BD