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Full membership of the Guideline Development Group
Professor John Camm (Chair)
BHF Professor of Clinical Cardiology, St. George's Hospital, University of London
Prof Huon Gray
Clinical Advisor, National Clinical Guideline Centre (NCGC), London; Consultant Cardiologist, Southampton University Hospital
Mr Sotiris Antoniou Principal Cardiac Pharmacist, Barts and the London NHS Trust and Lead Pharmacist for North East London Cardiac and Stroke Network
Ms Lina Bakhshi
Senior Information Scientist, NCGC
Ms Jenny Cadman
Cardiac Rehabilitation Service Manager, Senior Nurse in Cardiology,
Luton and Dunstable
Dr Emily Crowe
Senior Research Fellow, NCGC (from May 2008)
Dr Mark de Belder
Consultant Cardiologist, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough
Dr Jose Diaz
Research Fellow, NCGC (until May 2008)
Mr David H Geldard
Patient/Carer representative; Immediate Past President, Heart Care Partnership (UK)
Dr Robert Henderson
Consultant Cardiologist, Nottingham University Hospitals
Professor Marjan Jahangiri
Professor of Cardiac Surgery, St George's Hospital, University of London
Ms Taryn Krause
Senior Project Manager, NCGC (from November 2008)
Miss Kate Lovibond
Health Economist, NCGC
Mr Gavin Maxwell
Patient/Carer representative, Patient and Carer Network,
Royal College of Physicians of London
Dr Francis Morris
Accident and Emergency Physician, Sheffield University Hospitals
Mr Alun Roebuck
Cardiology Nurse Consultant, Sunderland
Ms Nicola Sloan
Research Fellow, NCBC (July 2008-March 2009)
Ms Claire Turner
Senior Project Manager, NCBC (until November 2008)
Professor S Richard Underwood
Professor of Cardiac Imaging, Royal Brompton Hospital, London
Mr Mark Whitbread
Clinical Practice Manager/Senior Paramedic/Cardiac Lead Medical Directorate, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
Funding This work was undertaken by National Clinical Guideline Centre for Acute and Chronic Conditions which received funding from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Institute.
Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
↵i See full guideline for details of the modification, which used surrogates of heart failure and renal impairment recorded in MINAP, for Killip class and creatinine recorded in GRACE. Adjustment resulted in risk stratification by mini-GRACE being very similar to that of the full GRACE score.