The members of the original guideline development group were:

Professor Allen Hutchinson (Chair) Director, Effective Clinical Practice Programme
Royal College of General Practitioners

Professor Gordon Waddell Orthopaedic Surgeon, Glasgow

Dr Gene Feder General Practitioner &
Senior Lecturer, St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College

Dr Alan Breen Research Director
Anglo European College of Chiropractic
Bournemouth

Dr Kim Burton Director of Spinal Research Unit
University of Huddersfield

Dr Charles Sears General Practitioner, Salisbury

Ann Thomson Middlesex School of Physiotherapy

Moishe Lewis Research Associate
St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College

Norma Montague National Back Pain Association

Aileen McIntosh Research Fellow & Programme Manager
Effective Clinical Practice Unit
University of Sheffield

Sara Fogan Research Associate
RCGP Audit Unit
University of Hull

Paula-Jayne McDowell Guidelines Initiative Officer
Royal College of General Practitioners