Writing Committee
Rupert Pearse (chief investigator), Carol Peden (QI lead), Tim Stephens, Graham Martin, Julian Bion, Ann Thomson, Brennan Kahan, Sally Kerry, Kate Rivett (patient representative), Duncan Wells (patient representative) and Gerry Richardson.
Trial Steering Committee
Stephen Brett (chairperson), Gareth Ackland (independent member), Julian Bion, Mike Grocott, Peter Holt, Sally Kerry, Graham Martin, Rupert Pearse, Carol Peden, Gerry Richardson, Kate Rivett (patient representative), Glenn Robert (independent member), Tim Stephens, Obioha Ukoumunne (independent member), Justin Waring (independent member) and Duncan Wells (patient representative).
Trial Management Group
Kirsty Everingham, Brennan Kahan, Sally Kerry, Rupert Pearse, Tim Stephens, Ann Thomson and Mandeep Phull.
National Emergency Laparotomy Audit Team
Jose Lourtie, Sharon Drake, David Cromwell and David Murray.
Methodology Team
Miqdad Asaria, David Cromwell, Rachel Evley, Omar Faiz, Gordon Forbes, Alan Girling, Brennan Kahan, Sally Kerry, David Kocman, Richard Lilford, Ravi Mahajan, Carolyn Tarrant, Gerry Richardson, Fan Yang and Janet Willars.
EPOCH trial cluster leads
Ajit Abraham (North East London), Pieter Bothma (East Anglia), Daniel Conway (Manchester, Merseyside and Yorkshire), Mark Edwards (Wessex), Omar Faiz (North West London), Michael Gillies (Scotland), Paul Hayden (Kent, Surrey and Sussex), Peter Holt (South London), Gary Minto (West Country), Tom Owen (North Lancashire and Cumbria), David Saunders (north-east of England), Clare Stapleton (Thames Valley), Robert Sutcliffe (West Midlands), Tamas Szakmany (Wales) and Nick Watson (East Midlands).
EPOCH trial Advisory Group
Iain Anderson (chairperson), Anthony Gordon, Simon Howell, Justin Kirk-Bayley, Martin Leuwer, Dileep Lobo, David Murray, Monty Mythen, Kate Rivett (patient representative), Neil Smith, Sean Tighe and Carl Waldmann.
Local EPOCH trial investigators
East Anglia
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn
Mark Blunt (principal investigator), Surjait Singh, Alistair Steel, Kate Wong and Leilani Cabreros.
James Paget University Hospital, Norfolk
Pieter Bothma (principal investigator), Vivek Chitre, Ayodele Obideyi, Dhiraj Ali, Karl Blenk, Dan Broad, Andreas Brodbeck, Rajesh Dumpala, Arnth Engel, Ranjit Ganepola, Sudha Garg, Mike Gay, Michael Karlikowsk, Edward Lams, Dean Millican, Inga Misane, Ajaya Mull, Veena Naik, Nathan Pushpa, Chris Nutt, Ayodele Obideyi, Saravanna Sagadai, Hazel Stuart, Paul Noble, Niko Van De Velde, Liam Hudson, Raoul Benlloch, Satish Singh, Karan Verma, Damian Laba, Jack Carmichael, Peter Richardson, Graham Wilson, Ricky Lewis, Karthik Surendran, Essam El-Damatty, Sarada Gurung, Ilona Raulusaite, Nabua Gerstina, Chloe Rochester, Rai Kuldip, Andrew Lindner, Therese Murray, Chitre Vivek, Roshan Lal, Sarah Downey, Vamsi Velchuru, Kamal Aryal, Raman Guruswamy and Kirosh Shankar.
Colchester Hospital, Colchester
Helen Porter (principal investigator), Matthew Tutton and Helen Agostini.
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich
Simon Fletcher (principal investigator), Richard Wharton, Steve Hutchinson and Bala Maiya.
Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich
Richard Howard-Griffin (principal investigator), Michael Crabtree, Vlad Kushakovsky, Abdel Omer, Senthil Nadarajavan and Stephanie Bell.
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
Vishal Patil (principal investigator), Asif Jah and Razeen Mahroof.
East Midlands
King’s Mill Hospital, Nottingham
Nicholas Watson (principal investigator), John Tansley and Gareth Moncaster.
Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester
Neil Flint (principal investigator), Andrew Miller, Marcus Wood, Andreou Prematie, Sally Roth, Sarah Bowery and Dawn Hales.
Royal Derby Hospital, Derby
Tanuja Shah (principal investigator), Gill Tierney, Craig Morris and Syed Iftikhar.
Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln
Amit Shukla (principal investigator), Grainne O’Dwyer, Adam Wolverson, Ferdinand Adams and Laura Perrin-Brown.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Chesterfield
Tim White (principal investigator) and Sarah Beavis.
Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham
Victoria Banks (principal investigator), John Abercrombie, Jonathon Mole, Avninder Chana, Ayan Banerjea, David Humes, Rajpal Dhingsa, John Wells and Stephanie Brown.
Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Kent
Kenneth Adegoke (principal investigator), Samer Doughan, Barclay Tofte, Ana Alegria, Nat Natarajan and Mansoor Akhtar.
William Harvey Hospital, Kent
John Mackinnon (principal investigator), Biju Aravind, Esther Cook, Mark Snazelle and Matt Gardner.
Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Kent
John Mackinnon (principal investigator).
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Lee Baldwin (principal investigator), Simon Bailey and Greg Lawton.
Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent
Nandita Divekar (principal investigator) and Neil Kukreja.
Darent Valley Hospital, Kent
Mansoor Sange (principal investigator), Mark Watson, Mallikarjunappa Satisha, Michael Protopapas, Zakaulla Belagodu, Shameem Sarfi, Pasupathy Raju and Brenda Stacey.
East Surrey Hospital, Surrey
Tim Campbell-Smith (principal investigator), Simon Parrington and Somi Desikan.
Manchester, Merseyside and Yorkshire
Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford
Andrew Brennan (principal investigator), John Griffith, Steve Fletcher, Catherine Farrow, Stewart Prestwich, Laura Graham, Martin Northey, Jay Gokhale and Frances Mosley.
Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester
Peter Alexander (principal investigator), Abhiram Sharma, Will Brady, John Hopper and Oliver Hill.
Pinderfields Hospital, Yorkshire
Sandeep Varma (principal investigator), Christopher Macklin, Alastair Rose, Harjeet Narula, Sarah Buckley and Karen Simeson.
Whiston Hospital, Merseyside
Kevin Sim (principal investigator), Michael Chadwick, Preeti Kuduvalli, Susan Dowling and Amanda McCairn.
Countess of Chester, Chester
Lawrence Wilson (principal investigator), Dale Vimalchandran, Anita Jhamatt, Nicole Robin and David Monk.
Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool
Martin Leuwer (principal investigator), David Bottomley, Oliver Zuzan and Ingeborg Welters.
North East London
Royal London, London
Davina Ross-Anderson (principal investigator), Charles Knowles, Nick Bunker, Kirsty Everingham, Ying Hu, Marta Januszewska, Phoebe Bodger, Edyta Niebrzegowska, Carmen Correia, Richard Haslop and Tom Abbott.
Homerton University Hospital, London
Tabitha Tanqueray (principal investigator), Sanjay Wijeykoon, Susan Jain, Jens Full, Tamzin Cuming, Flora Bailey, Stelios Chatzimichail, Pedro Cunha, Almas Rehman, Manab Mohanty and Nicola Radford.
Newham University Hospital, London
Otto Mohr (principal investigator), Hitesh Patel and Dolores Mateo.
Whipps Cross University Hospital, London
Ashok Raj (principal investigator), Michael Machesney, Nazar Abdul, Kim Jemmet, Marta Campbell, David Inglis, Thomas Parker, Thomas Medici and Peter Chan.
Queen’s Hospital, London
Nathan Borgeaud (principal investigator), Dipankar Mukherjee, Oluremi Odejinmi, Tomas Jovaisa and Elizabeth Harwood.
University College London Hospital, London
Ramani Moonesinghe (principal investigator), Jonathan Mccullough, Jigna Modha and Sanjiv Patel.
North-east of England
Darlington Memorial Hospital, Darlington
James Limb (principal investigator), Sheshagiri Bengeri and Amir Rafi.
North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields
Elizabeth Hall (principal investigator), James Brown, Bruce Gibson, Una McNelis, Mike Bradburn, Maria Lawson and Sara Pick.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead
Matthew Gaughan (principal investigator), David Browell, Vanessa Linnett, Jenny Ritzema and Paul O’Loughlin.
Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland
Sean Cope (principal investigator), John Corson, Alistair Roy and Julie Furneval.
University Hospital Of North Durham, Durham
Anitha Holtham (principal investigator), Sophie Noblett and Chris Dawson.
Wansbeck General Hospital, Ashington
Elizabeth Hall (principal investigator), Mike Bradburn and Fiona McMenemie.
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle
David Saunders (principal investigator), Stefan Pulsa, Ian Clement, Verity Calder, Katherine Allen, Catherine Rimmer, Helen Reed and Christine Boyd.
James Cook Hospital, Middlesbrough
Diane Monkhouse (principal investigator), Peter Davies, Jost Mullenheim, Emanuel Cirstea, Martyn Cain and Kirsty Baillie.
North Lancashire and Cumbria
Royal Preston Hospital, Preston
Tom Owen (principal investigator), Arnab Bhowmick, Keiarash Jovestani, Sean Mcmullan, Emma Durant, Alexandra Williams and Donna Doyle.
Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool
Jason Cupitt (principal investigator), Jonathon Barker, Nick Harper and Emma Brennan.
Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackburn
Daren Subar (principal investigator), Robert Shawcross and Dominic Sebastian.
Furness General Hospital, Cumbria
Panna Patel (principal investigator), Gillian O’Connell, Jyrki Karvonen, Alison Hool, Karen Burns, Carol Mcarthur, Maitra Ishaan, Tezas Stergios, Singh Gursevak, Makvana Sonia, Heather Pratt and Kaighan Lynne.
Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan
Sean McAfee (principal investigator), Chris Lewis and Wael Khalaf.
Royal Lancaster Hospital, Lancaster
Chris Coldwell (principal investigator), Christine Bronder, Mark Wilkinson and Emma Davis.
North West London
St Mary’s Hospital, London
Glenn Arnold (principal investigator), Paul Ziprin, Rachel Bartlett and Martin Stotz.
Royal Free Hospital, London
Rovan D’souza (principal investigator), Phillippa Pemberton, Banwari Agarwal, Anita Sugavanam, Melanie Tan, Massimo Varcada and Craig Lyness.
Hillingdon Hospital, London
Andrew Thorniley (principal investigator), Ash Prabhudesai, Ruth Griffin, Shubha Vashisht, James Harris, Julie Wakeford, Sergei Vaganov, Yasser Mohsen, Alister Myers, Qamar Iqbal, Simon Harris and Sami Ijaz.
Charing Cross Hospital, London
James Burrow (principal investigator), Paul Ziprin, Francesca Rubulotta, Nabil El-Masry and Nicola Stranix.
Northwick Park Hospital/St Mark’s Hospital, London
Tamsin Rope (principal investigator), Lampros Liasis, Tariq Husain, Josef Watfah, Megan Griffiths, Janindra Warusavitarne, Charles Cartwright, Linden Baxter and Rakhee Visavadia.
Scotland
Western Infirmary, Glasgow
Malcolm Sim (principal investigator), Chris Wilson and Paul Harrison.
Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, Dumfries
Dewi Williams (principal investigator), Maria Bews-Hair, Wayne Wrathall, Catherine Jardine, Paul Mclaren, Fanus Dreyer and Paddy Collins.
Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley
Jennifer Edwards (principal investigator), Susan Moug, Kevin Rooney, Erin Mcilveen, Steven Henderson, Linda Graham, Gail Stark, Lynn Taylor, Mark Munro, Lynn Stewart, Natalie Dickinson, Laura Rooney, Lindsay Bailey and Diane Murray.
University Hospital Crosshouse, Kilmarnock
Tim Geary (principal investigator), Simon Gibson, Colin Pow, Kerwei Tan and Richard Stevenson.
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Ewen Harrison (principal investigator), Peter Lamb, Michael Gillies, Kate Carey, Laura Fitton, Fabian Cook and Magen Schwarz.
Wishaw General Hospital, Wishaw
Alan Morrison (principal investigator), Gavin Bryce, Khaled Razouk and Kathryn Cain.
South London
King’s College London, London
Gudrun Kunst (principal investigator), Savvas Papagrigoriadis and Phil Hopkins.
Kingston Hospital, London
Adrian Fawcet (principal investigator), Britta O’Carroll-Kuehn and Amira Girgis.
St Helier Hospital, London
Stas Janokowski (principal investigator) and Sami Farhat.
Croydon University Hospital, London
Stella Vig (principal investigator), Nada Hadi and Anthony Parsons.
St George’s Hospital, London
Maurizio Cecconi (principal investigator), David Melville and Richard Hartopp.
Frimley Park Hospital, London
Justin Woods (principal investigator), Isabella Karat and David Gerrard.
Wales
Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny
Edward Curtis (principal investigator), Krishnamurthy Somasekar and Tom Morgan-Jones.
Glangwili General Hospital, Camarthen
Michael Martin (principal investigator), Mark Henwood, Gordon Milne and Ajit Sivasankaranand.
Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil
Alexandra Scott (principal investigator), Xavier Escofet, Piroska Toth-Tarsoly, Majed Al Shama, Valerie Hilton and Huw Davis.
Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant
Gail Williams (principal investigator), Tim Harvard, Peter Fitzgerald, Dom Hurford and Tamas Szakmany.
Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport
Babu Muthuswamy (principal investigator), Gethin Williams, Jack Parry Jones and Nick Mason.
Glan Clwyd Hospital, Bodelwyddan
Richard Pugh (principal investigator), Ramesh Rajagopal, Shrisha Shenoy, Magdy Khater and Richard Morgan.
Thames Valley
Milton Keynes General Hospital, Milton Keynes
Nikolaos Makris (principal investigator), Anil Hermandes and Andrew White.
Northampton General Hospital, Northampton
Guy Finch (principal investigator), Matt Outram, Jonny Wilkinson and Jennifer Spimpolo.
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, Luton
Debbie Shaw (principal investigator), Marion Obichere, Giovanni Brescia, Flavia Menezes and Helena Stafford.
Great Western Hospital, Swindon
Malcolm Watters (principal investigator), Chris Thorn, Julian Stone, Sam Andrews, Nicola Lythell and Helen Langton.
Wexham Park Hospital, Slough
Clare Stapleton (principal investigator), Stephen Baxter and Roy Fernandes.
Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury
Rame Sunthareswaran (principal investigator), Alastair Ankers and Kumar Panikkar.
Wessex
Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury
Simon Sleight (principal investigator), Belinda Cornforth and Louise Bell.
Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester
Phil Dodd (principal investigator), Fenella Welsh and Geoff Watson.
Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital, Hampshire
Phil Dodd (principal investigator), Fenella Welsh and Geoff Watson.
Poole Hospital, Poole
Frankie Dorman (principal investigator), Guy Nash, James Bromilow and Fran Haigh.
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth
David Pogson (principal investigator), Stuart Mercer and Vanessa Tucker.
Southampton University Hospital, Southampton
Carolyn Way (principal investigator), James Kirby-Bott, Jenny McLachan and Rob Chambers.
West Country
Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol
Rachael Craven (principal investigator), Jane Blazeby, Dan Freshwater-Turner, Lorna Burrows and Helen Howes.
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
Iain Christie (principal investigator), Mark Coleman, Gary Minto, Sam Waddy, Grant Sanders, Abigail Patrick, Catherine Pitman, Susan Tyson and Hannah Smith.
North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple
Guy Rousseau (principal investigator), Mark Cartmell, Jan Hanousek, Nigel Hollister and Lynsey Kightly.
Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester
Mark Pulletz (principal investigator), Anjay Talwar, Susie Baker and Ruth Thomas.
Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton
Richard Gibbs (principal investigator), Hamish Noble, Joseph Silsby, Helen Black, Thomas Evans, Robert DeBrunner, Nicola Cook, Stacy Hodges, Amanda Stevens and Rowena Felipe.
Royal Cornwall Hospital, Cornwall
Jonathan Paddle (principal investigator), Denzil May and Alison Pickford.
West Midlands
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
Sid Riddington (principal investigator), Olga Tucker, Simon Smart, Jeremy Marwick, Nigel Suggett, Ewen Griffiths and David Riddington.
Sandwell Hospital, West Bromwich
Kathryn Gill (principal investigator), Neil Cruickshank, Jay Susarla, Emma Leno and Julie Colley.
Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Worchester
Andrew Burtenshaw (principal investigator), Stephen Lake, Jamie Greenwood, Sian Bhardwaj, Jessica Thrush and Julie Wollaston.
Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley
Julian Sonksen (principal investigator), Rajan Patel, Adrian Jennings, David Stanley, Jenny Wright, Chris Horner, Faisal Baig, Katie Cooke and Jagdeep Singh.
New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton
Andrew Claxton (principal investigator), Nazzia Mirza, Simon Hester and Georgia Knight.
University Hospital Coventry, Coventry
Peeyush Kumar (principal investigator), Taj Saran (principal investigator), Gabriele Marangoni, Roger Townsend, Andy Thacker, Anne Scase, Meghna Sharma and Beth Hale.
