Scientific Advisory Group
Terms of reference | Membership | Agendas and minutes
NCIN has established a Scientific Advisory Group in order to provide high quality methodological and analytical advice regarding its information outputs. The group meets twice each year; agendas and minutes of these meetings are published and can be downloaded from this page. The group's full 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 Scientific Advisory Group Terms of Reference (PDF-152kb)
Membership
| Member | Position |
| Professor Henrik Møller |
Chair; Director, Thames Cancer Registry |
| 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 |
| Dr Catherine Boyle |
Macmillan Cancer Support |
| Professor Michel Coleman |
Cancer Research UK Cancer Survival Group, Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| Dr David Forman |
Head, Section of Cancer Information, IARC |
| Helen Losty |
Service User |
| Dr Sean McPhail |
Head of Cancer Analysis, Cancer Intelligence Service, South West Public Health Observatory |
| 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 |
| Professor John Wilkinson |
Director, Northern & Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Intelligence Service |
| Ruth Yates |
Head of Health Intelligence, NHS Stoke on Trent |
| Ex officio members |
| Chris Carrigan |
Head of the NCIN Coordinating Team |
| Dr Jane Cope |
Director, National Cancer Research Institute |
| Di Riley |
Associate Director, Clinical Outcomes Team, NCIN |
| Secretariat |
| Dr Michael Chapman |
Research Programme Manager, NCRI/NCIN |
| Alison Stone |
PA to Chris Carrigan, NCIN |
Agendas and Minutes from previous meetings
11th April 2012
26th October 2011
10th October 2010
8th February 2010