Scientific Advisory Group
NCIN has established a Scientific Advisory Group in order to provide high quality methodological and analytical advice regarding its information outputs. The group will meet two or three times each year and confirmed minutes and papers will be made available through this website. The group's terms of reference and membership are below.
Terms of reference
- To advise the NCIN Steering Group and Coordinating Team on the appropriate methodologies to be used in and interpretation to be applied to information and research outputs produced by the NCIN;
- To review identified priority analyses and outputs proposed by the NCIN Steering Group, Coordinating Team, Site Specific Reference Groups and their associated lead cancer registries or other NCIN partner organisations and advise on appropriate statistical and analytical methodologies to be used;
- To advise the NCIN Steering Group and Coordinating Team on priorities for commissioned research into methodological developments in order to improve the reliability of information outputs especially in the area of comparative performance and outcomes measures;
- To recommend to the NCIN Steering Group appropriate peer review processes for relevant information output or research proposals submitted to NCIN for funding;
- To liaise with the UKACR Analysis Group and other groups concerned with producing relevant outputs (e.g. for NCASP Cancer Audits) to develop common approaches to analysis and presentation of results.
Download terms of reference (pdf-152kb)
Membership
| Member | Position |
|---|---|
| Dr Paul Aylin | Clinical Reader in Epidemiology and Public Health, Assistant Director of the Dr Foster Unit, Imperial College |
| Dr David Brewster | Director, Scottish Cancer Registry |
| Professor Michel Coleman | Cancer Research UK Cancer Survival Group, Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| Professor Angela Coulter | Director of Global Initiatives, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making |
| Dr Jim Elliott | Research Adviser, Macmillan Cancer Support |
| Professor David Forman | NCIN National Lead for Information & Analysis |
| Helen Losty | Service User |
| Dr Sean McPhail | Head of Cancer Analysis, Cancer Intelligence Service, South West Public Health Observatory |
| Professor Henrik Moller | Director, Thames Cancer Registry |
| Dr Mick Peake | NCIN Lead Clinician |
| Professor Peter Sasieni | Deputy Director, Cancer Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Mathematics & Statistics, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London |
| Richard Stephens | Service User - NCRI Lymphoma CSG |
| Catherine Thomson | Head of Statistical Information, Cancer Research UK |
| Ruth Yates | Head of Health Intelligence, NHS Stoke on Trent |
| Ex officio members | |
| Chris Carrigan | Head of the NCIN Coordingating Team |
| Dr Jane Cope | Director, National Cancer Research Institute |
| Di Riley | Associate Director, Clinical Outcomes Team, NCIN |
| Secretariat | |
| Dr Michael Chapman | NCRI/NCIN Research Programme Manager |
| Alison Stone | PA to Chris Carrigan, NCIN |
