Stakeholder involvement | Right Decisions

SIGN is a collaborative network of clinicians, other healthcare professionals and patient organisations and is part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland. SIGN guidelines are developed by multidisciplinary groups of practising healthcare professionals using a standard methodology. The methodology used to develop this guideline is detailed in Guideline development - Methodology. Further details of SIGN methodology are available at www.sign.ac.uk

The guideline development group

Ms Laurie Eyles (Chair)	Professional Adviser, Scottish Government/Dietetic Service Lead, NHS Lothian
Ms Kerry Aitken	Clinical Lead Dietitian, NHS Fife
Dr Kashif Ali	GP Principal and Primary Care Lead Diabetes Managed Clinical Network, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Dr James Boyle	Consultant in Diabetes, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Dr Ruth Campbell	Consultant Dietitian in Public Health Nutrition, NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Dr Davina Chauhan	Clinical Psychologist, NHS Lothian
Mrs Alison Diamond	Diabetes/Obesity Specialist Dietitian
Dr Ian Godber	Consultant Clinical Scientist, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Ms Alison Grant	Voluntary Organisation Representative, Diabetes Scotland, Glasgow
Dr Nauman Jadoon	Acting Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Professor Mike Lean	Professor of Human Nutrition and Consultant Physician, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Mrs Jenny Marr	Person with lived experience
Dr Emily Moffat	Health Psychologist, NHS Grampian
Mr Chris Myles	Lived experience representative
Ms Carolyn Oxenham	Diabetes Prevention Programme Manager, NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Dr Andrew Radley	Consultant in Public Health, NHS Tayside
Ms Ailsa Stein	Programme Manager, SIGN
Professor Calum Sutherland	Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Dundee
Professor Vivien Swanson	Professor of Health Psychology, University of Stirling
Ms Catriona Vernal	Programme Manager, SIGN

The membership of the guideline development group was confirmed following consultation with the member organisations of SIGN. All members of the guideline development group made declarations of interest. A register of interests is available in the supporting material section for this guideline at www.sign.ac.uk

Guideline development and literature review expertise, support and facilitation were provided by SIGN Executive and Healthcare Improvement Scotland staff. All members of the SIGN Executive make yearly declarations of interest. A register of interests is available on request from the SIGN Executive.

Karen Graham	Patient and Public Involvement Advisor
Aimie Littleallan	Project Officer
Gaynor Rattray	Guideline Co-ordinator

Consultation and peer review

A report of the consultation and peer review comments and responses is available in the supporting material section for this guideline on the SIGN website. All expert referees and other contributors made declarations of interest and further details of these are available on request from the SIGN Executive.

Specialist review

This guideline was also reviewed in draft form by the following independent expert referees, who were asked to comment primarily on the feasibility of implementing the recommendations in the guideline. The guideline group addresses every comment made by an external reviewer, and must justify any disagreement with the reviewers’ comments.

SIGN is very grateful to all of these experts for their contribution to the guideline.

Ms Anna Bell-Higgs	Counterweight NHS Implementation and Training Lead
Ms Mandy Christie	Lived experience representative, Dundee
Dr Hannah Dale	Health Psychologist, NHS Tayside and Head of Programme for Health Improvement Psychology Services, NHS Education for Scotland
Dr Kevin Fernando	General Practitioner, NHS Lothian
Ms Jennifer Hynes	Type 2 Diabetes Early Intervention Lead, NHS Forth Valley
Professor Brian Kennon	Professor and Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinology, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; Specialty Adviser to Chief Medical Office, and National Lead Diabetes, Scottish Diabetes Group
Ms Dorothy Kirkwood	Lived experience representative, Bellshill
Mr Andrew G Robertson	Consultant Bariatric Surgeon, NHS Lothian and British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society Council Member
Mr Andrew Steele	Senior Pharmacist for Medicine, NHS Fife
Ms Jacqueline Walker	Dietetic Clinical Lead, NHS Grampian and Professional Adviser, Scottish Government
Professor Sarah Wild	Professor of Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant in Public Health, NHS Lothian and Public Health Scotland

Public consultation

The draft guideline was also available on the SIGN website for a month to allow all interested parties to comment. The response to consultation comments is available in the consultation report on the SIGN website, www.sign.ac.uk

SIGN editorial group

As a final quality control check, the guideline is reviewed by an editorial group comprising the relevant specialty representatives on SIGN Council to ensure that the specialist reviewers’ comments have been addressed adequately and that any risk of bias in the guideline development process as a whole has been minimised. The editorial group for this guideline was as follows. All members of SIGN Council make yearly declarations of interest. A register of interests is available on the SIGN Council page of the SIGN website, www.sign.ac.uk

Dr Heather Connolly	British Psychological Society
Dr Roberta James	SIGN Programme Lead; Co-Editor
Dr James Morton	Royal College of General Practitioners
Ms Debbie Provan	Allied Health Professions Federation Scotland
Dr Safia Qureshi	Director of Evidence and Digital, Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Professor Angela Timoney	Chair of SIGN; Co-Editor