Obstacles to acceptance of clinical decision analysis.

(26) Parity of salaries with NHS colleagues must be maintained for clinical academic staff and their removal expenses should be provided. Members of the group are as follows: Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, (chairman), president, Royal College of Physicians; Mr L D Abrams, University Hospitals Association; Dr P A J Ball, consultant physician; Sir Christopher Booth, president, Royal Society of Medicine; Professor A J Buller, Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain; The late Professor C G Clark, former professor of surgery at University College Hospital; Dame Barbara Clayton, honorary research fellow in metabolism, University of Southampton; Professor R D Cohen, professor of medicine, The London Hospital Medical College; Miss Barbara Crispin, assistant secretary, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals; Professor C J Dickinson, professor of medicine, St Bartholomew's Medical College; Professor Sir Colin Dollery, director, Department of Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical School; Dr D C Evered, second secretary, Medical Research Council; Professor T W Glenister, dean, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School; Professor G S Kilpatrick, vice provost, University of Wales College of Medicine; Dr J G G Ledingham, May reader in medicine, University of Oxford; Professor N McIntyre, professor of medicine, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine; Professor G P McNicol, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals; Professor M F Oliver, Duke of Edinburgh professor of cardiology, University ofEdinburgh; Professor M J Peckham, director, British Postgraduate Medical Federation; Professor D K Peters, regius professor of physic, University of Cambridge; Dr D A Pyke, registrar, Royal College of Physicians; Professor J P Quilliam, former chairman, Medical Academic Staff Committee of BMA; Dr C J C Roberts, former chairman, Standing Committee of Members, Royal College of Physicians; Professor D A Shaw, dean of medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Sir Maurice Shock, former chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, rector of Lincoln College, Oxford; Dr C L Smith, British Medical Association; Professor J D Swales, chairman, Federation of Associations of Clinical Professors; Professor Sir David Weatherall, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; Sir David Innes Williams, chairman of council, Imperial Cancer Research Fund; Professor J D Williams, professor of medical microbiology, The London Hospital Medical College; Dr P 0 Williams, director, Wellcome Trust.

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