Technology Appraisal Committee - Members

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A national health care institute is seeking committee members for the Technology Appraisal Committee. You will engage in health technology assessment, attend regular meetings, and influence policy recommendations. Candidates should have experience in health or social care, and commitment to equality and confidentiality is essential. Competitive remuneration per session is offered, along with reimbursement for necessary expenses.

Benefits

Reimbursement for travel and accommodation

Access to professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience as a health or social care professional.
• Understanding of influences on NICE and the healthcare sector.

Responsibilities

• Attend committee meetings and contribute to guidance development.
• Review evidence and participate in deliberations.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to committee's code of conduct.

Skills

Experience in health or social care

Ability to analyze complex data

Commitment to equality and diversity

Education

Active registration with the appropriate professional body

Job description

Technology Appraisal Committee - Members

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The closing date is 26 November 2025

We are recruiting for professional committee members to join the Technology Appraisal Committee (TAC), in the following professions:

• Health and care professionals with an interest in health technology assessment. For example: hospital doctors, general practitioners, nurses, allied health professionals, or public health specialists.

The Technology Appraisal committees look at innovative technologies (such as CAR‑T in oncology), technologies that have the potential to improve the health of a large number of people (such as inclisiran in cardiovascular disease) or make a meaningful difference to people with very severe disease (such as risdiplam in spinal muscular atrophy).

Please note: NICE will reimburse locum backfill for committee members that are working in NHS general practice and a locum is needed to allow their attendance on NICE business. More information can be found here.

Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 26 November 2025.

If you have an access requirement that prevents you from applying online, please contact [e-mail] and we can provide MS Word versions of the forms to complete.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities:

• Set aside enough time to attend committee meetings and use your personal and professional knowledge to inform the development of the guidance.
• Raise any concerns about process or details in the draft guidance with the committee, and try to resolve these issues within the committee, with support from the guidance developer or the NICE guidance project team.
• Contribute positively to the work of the committee and to developing the guidance.
• Take full account of the evidence in developing recommendations.
• Consider the analysis and interpretation of evidence prepared by the evidence review team.
• Act in a professional manner, show good manners and be courteous to colleagues and staff at all times (committee members should behave in a polite, efficient and respectful manner and without bias or favour, using the highest standards of conduct expected in public life and service while on NICE duty).
• Be impartial and honest in conducting your duties for NICE, use public funds entrusted to you to the best advantage of NICE, and avoid deliberately damaging the confidence of the public or stakeholders in NICE.
• Ensure strict adherence to NICE's Principles and equality policy.
• Read and adhere to NICE's policies on hospitality, declarations of interests and travel and subsistence.
• Please see attached Information for Applicants document for more information.

About us

Information on reimbursement can be found here. NICE will pay reasonable out‑of‑pocket expenses, including train fares and hotel costs when necessary, for attending committee meetings.

Other expenses: NICE recognises that in some circumstances individuals will need to arrange for carers or support workers to accompany them to a meeting, or to take over unpaid caring responsibilities while they are at a meeting - this includes childcare or care of a family member with a disability or other additional needs. The circumstances in which NICE can provide reimbursement for such costs are outlined in the non‑staff reimbursement policy.

Time commitment: Committee members are expected to attend 12 day‑long committee meetings a year and an annual away day. Our committee meetings are predominantly virtual, with a small number of meetings held in a hybrid format. Committee members will have to spend time reading substantial committee documents and helping to produce consultation documents.

Committee meetings are held in public. See NICE's information on advisory committee meetings.

Membership will be for 3 years and will be eligible for renewal. The second and further periods of office will be for periods of up to 3 years by mutual agreement, up to a maximum of 10 years.

Job responsibilities

Before you consider applying for this role, please ensure you read the conflicts of interest section of the attached applicant information document and refer to NICE's policy on declaring and managing interests for NICE advisory committees.

• Regularly attend Committee meetings (12 per year) as well as an annual awayday and occasional training.
• Contribute to the panel deliberations from your own specialist knowledge whilst respecting input from non‑specialists and lay persons.
• Apply your own experience and judgement to the topics under discussion, rather than act as a representative of your organisation.
• Work with the other members of the Committee and NICE staff to identify key issues and review evidence.
• Work with other members of the Committee and NICE staff to formulate recommendations and comment on the evidence and on drafts of the guidance.
• Agree the final recommendations and guidance.
• Advise on implementation issues as required.
• Ensure appropriate consideration of the implications of guidance for duties under equalities legislation. Follow agreed decision‑making procedures and accept the collective decisions of the Committee.
• Abide by NICE's code of conduct for Committee members including declarations of interest, and follow the Committee's operational procedures.
• Prepare for the Committee meetings by reading the substantive papers and by gathering any additional information on the proposed topics which may be helpful to the discussions.
• Participate in review(s) of the functioning of the Committee and accept changes to the membership, remit, procedures, etc., of the Committee as a result.
• Participate in induction training and other training which may be offered periodically.

Person Specification

Ability to contribute to the work of the committee

• Experience in health or social care (as appropriate), either as a practising health or social care professional, or working in or in association with the wider aspects of health or social care or the healthcare industries.
• Active registration with the appropriate professional body [for example any committee members or chairs who are appointed because of their up‑to‑date specialist pharmaceutical knowledge, are required to be registered with the GPhC].
• (for medical roles only) A licence to practise.
• An understanding of the social, political, economic and professional influences on NICE.

Ability to understand and interpret multiple complex data sets

• Ability to gather data, analyse, critique and synthesise complex information, as evidenced by relevant experience and/or academic qualifications.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

• Commitment to eliminating unlawful discrimination, advancing equality and an understanding or awareness of the issues of inequality in health, public health and social care settings.

Eligibility: these are listed as 'essential criteria; as you need to answer all questions

• Are you happy to commit to work within the NICE equality scheme?
• Do you commit to keeping committee discussions confidential as needed?
• Do you have the time to commit to this committee's work? (This includes attending meetings, reading papers, commenting on draft documents, and other work as required)
• Have you worked, or do you work as a healthcare, social care or public health professional? If yes, please give details including profession, specialty and dates:
• Have you received a prison sentence or suspended sentence of 3 months or more in the last 5 years?
• Are you the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order or interim order?
• Have you been dismissed (except by redundancy) by any NHS or social care body?
• Have you had an earlier term of appointment with NICE terminated?
• Are you under a disqualification order under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986?
• Have you been removed from trusteeship of a charity?
• Are you employed by the Department for Health and Social Care?
• Are you employed by NHS England's national commissioning functions?
• Are you appointed by NHS England as a National Clinical Director, National Specialty Lead, or Clinical Reference Group chair?

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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£1 to £1,000 a session. See info and attachment for links to reimbursement policy.