Under the constitution then agreed on, the supreme governing body of the church is the General Synod, consisting of the bishops and clerical and lay representatives of the several dioceses, whose local affairs are managed by diocesan synods.
This objective would be reached through a development process invoking expert consensus followed by psychometric and clinical evaluations involving professional and lay representatives of all world regions.
Vane sat on this body, which met periodically until 1648, as one of the lay representatives of the Independent faction.
The National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) conducted a research prioritisation exercise in 2009, in which 14 lay representatives of the Royal College of Anaesthetists Patient Liaison Groupparticipateded.
There were no public (or lay) representatives on the panels.
This consists of the independent chairman and two members, the chief investigator, two coinvestigators from the tertiary centres, a lay representative, representative of the Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit and a representative of the sponsor.
This process involves five steps: translation by bilingual lay individuals, review by bilingual medical professionals working from the local setting, focus group discussions with lay representative members of the target group, back-translation by a bilingual individual blinded to the original instrument, and pilot testing.
The TOC will consist of the Chief Investigator, an independent Chair/clinician, the Trial Statistician, independent lay representative and the TMG; a representative of the funder will be invited to attend.
The Steering Group membership was finalised by agreement among the NIAA's main funding partners in November 2013, with the aim of including a broad range of professional and lay representatives; terms of reference and the PSP protocol were signed off by the Steering Group in early 2014.
Key findings from the analyses were presented to an Advisory Group comprising health professionals (paediatric diabetes consultants and diabetes specialist nurses), lay representatives (parents of children with type 1 diabetes), policy makers, representatives from JDRF Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland, the National Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes Co-ordinator; and, academics.
