- Iona Heath, general practitioner, Caversham Group Practice (chair)
- Liz Wager, publications consultant, Sideview
- Hilda Bastian, head of department, German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
- Charles Warlow, professor of medical neurology, University of Edinburgh
- Derick Wade, consultant and professor in neurological rehabilitation, Oxford Centre for Enablement
- Asad Raja, associate professor, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
- Ainsley Newson, lecturer in biomedical ethics, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol
- Jacinta Tan, research fellow and honorary consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, University of Oxford
- Nick Pace, lead clinician in anaesthesia, Western Infirmary, Glasgow
- Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ
- Julian Sheather, senior ethics adviser, BMA
- John Weller, committee secretary, BMJ
- Peter Lapsley, patient editor, BMJ
The committee is recruited through open advertisement in the lay press and the BMJ, and we welcome applications from both within and outside the UK.