NJR Steering Committee

The NJR Steering Committee is an advisory non-departmental public body responsible for the work and progress of the NJR.

The Committee is chaired by former chairman of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts, and current chairman of the NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Board, Bill Darling, and vice-chaired by British Orthopaedic Association past president, Professor Paul Gregg.

Responsibilities

The committee’s responsibilities include:

• setting the NJR’s work programme and monitoring its progress
• providing advice to Ministers, orthopaedic units, hospitals and implant suppliers where the information shows concerns about the performance of certain prostheses
• setting the cost of the levy, based on the contractual costs of running the Registry and the work programme agreed
• providing an annual report to Ministers on the performance of the NJR and, following Ministerial agreement, to make publicly available
• establishing and monitoring codes of conduct for the contractor dealing with orthopaedic units within NHS trusts and independent healthcare providers, and the orthopaedic implant industry
• facilitating, where appropriate, the use of the NJR data for research purposes.

Members and representatives

The Steering Committee oversees the NJR’s activities and is made up of members and representatives from a range of stakeholder groups. Members of the Committee as at 1 February 2008 are:

Name	Representing	Membership expiry date
Mr Bill Darling	Chair	30/09/2009
Prof. Paul Gregg	Vice Chair	30/01/2009
	Orthopaedic surgical profession	30/09/2009
Mr Martyn Porter	Orthopaedic surgical profession	31/12/2010
Mr Keith Tucker	Orthopaedic surgical profession	30/04/2010
Mr Mick Borroff	Industry (Orthopaedic Implant Suppliers) Member	30/09/2010
Mr Dean Sleigh	Industry (Orthopaedic Implant Suppliers) Member	31/01/2012
Prof. Alex Macgregor	Public Health and Epidemiology	30/09/2009
Ms Carolyn Naisby	Practitioner with special interest in orthopaedics	30/06/2010
Mr Andrew Woodhead	NHS trust management	01/01/2010
Ms Patricia Cassidy	Independent healthcare sector member	19/04/2010
Ms Mary Cowern	Patient representative	30/09/2010
Ms Patricia Durkin	Patient representative	28/02/2010

Representatives from:

• NHS supply chain
• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Department of Health
• Welsh Assembly Government
• Northgate Information Solutions (contractor)
• NJR Regional Clinical Coordinators team.