From: [log in to unmask] (Adrian Midgley)
> [log in to unmask],Net wrote at 21:41 on 03/12/98
> about "NICE":
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> >I was a bit annoyed by the appointment of Prof Rawlins to be Chair of
> NICE.
> >As Chair of the CSM, isn't this a conflict of interest?
> Go on...
>
> >How can someone who presides over the granting of licences to new
> drugs,
> >unbiasly give guidelines on their efficacy and practical uses, when so
> many >new drugs are licenced with paltry equivocal published data?
>
> He may have been sitting there waiting to say that about many of the drugs
> his ctee is obliged to licence under the existing legislation (which I
> believe to be broadly satisfactory).
>
> Now he has a wonderful chance to do so. I don't see a conflict in
> his being able to say what he thinks about them as well as presiding over
> licencing them.
>
But working for the CSM he sees all the confidential company data (so how
can you say the current legislation is satisfactory in a world of EBM?).
He will have to have a Chinese Wall in his head.
> Who would your favoured candidate have been (serious question)
> I don't know Rawlins, and hadn't thought hard about it before, but I think
> Prof Jarman (St Mary's) would have been on my shortlist.
>
Yes.
How about that mad pathologist from Leeds?
I must confess to not knowing many other suitable candidates.
Dr David J Plews
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