The Clinical Reference Group

The NELA Clinical Reference Group (CRG) ensures that all relevant clinical professional and speciality stakeholders have direct input into the design and conduct of the audit. The CRG consists of representatives from partner organisations as well as other stakeholders including patients. The CRG acts in an advisory capacity to the Project Team, providing specialty specific advice, and lay advice as appropriate. The CRG reviews the audit design regularly and also reviews drafts of any reports and recommendations issued.

The current representatives on the Clinical Reference Group are:

  • Dr Dave Murray - Chair
  • Dr Carolyn Johnston - NELA QI Lead
  • Ms Lyndsay Pearce - NELA Surgical Lead
  • Dr David Saunders - NELA Anaesthesia Lead
  • Mr Nicholas Lees - Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS)
  • Ms Lindsay Keeley - Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP)
  • Ms Anna Tennant - Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
  • Dr Clare Hughes - British Geriatric Society (BGS)
  • Dr Seema Agarwal - Association of Anaesthetists (AoA)
  • Dr Tanuja Shah - Age Anaesthesia Association (AAA)
  • Dr Ifran Chaudry - Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM)
  • Dr Mike Nevin - UK Clinical Director Network, National Lead
  • Dr Shondipon Laha - Intensive Care Society (ICS)
  • Prof David Harrison - Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC)
  • Ms Janet Moss - Patient Representative
  • Dr Simon Varley - Emergency Laparotomy Network (ELN)
  • Dr Sally-Anne Wilson - Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)
  • Prof David Cromwell - Methodologist/RCS CEU
  • Dr Anne Pullyblank - Academic Health Services Network (AHSN)
  • Dr Majd Al Shamaa - Welsh representative
  • Dr Babu Muthuswamy - Welsh representative
  • Mr Tim Duncan - British Gynaecological Cancer Society
  • Ms Sarah Duff - Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI)
  • Dr Naren Govindarajah -Royal College of Radiologists (RCR)
  • Dr Mike Grocott - Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA)

NELA CRG - Terms of Reference