Minutes of the Programme Development Grants (PDG) programme meeting for Competition 38
Date and Location
26 March 2024 via online video meeting
In attendance
Committee
Professor Richard G Watt (Chair)
Professor Rebecca Kearney (Co-Chair)
Professor Penny Bee
Professor Tim Coleman
Professor Vari Drennan
Reverend Stephen Habgood
Professor Catriona McDaid
Mx Anica Alvarez Nishio
Mr John Pemberton
Professor Mari Carmen Portillo
Mr David Taylor
Professor Stephanie Taylor
Programme Director
Professor Marian Knight
Secretariat
Mr Raj Flora (NIHR)
Ms Sarah Thompson (NIHR)
Ms Sana Bestwn (NIHR)
Mr Curtis Dixon (NIHR)
MrRahulMalde (NIHR)
Representatives
Dr Julie Simpson (Chief Scientist Office Scotland)
Dr Nicola Armstrong (Health and Social Care Northern Ireland)
PDG Applications considered
NIHR207562: Development work for an evaluation of a complex intervention to increase uptake of vaccinations in pregnancy among socio-economically and ethnically diverse populations
Lead Applicant: Professor Asma Khalil
Conflicts: Professor Vari Drennan
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR207579: Development of a grant application to estimate the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of implementing routine dysphagia screening on care of the older persons wards
Lead Applicant: Dr Lizelle Bernhardt
Conflicts: Professor Tim Coleman, Mr David Taylor
Outcome: Conditional Support
Professor Marian Knight assumed the chair
NIHR207588: RAtionalising Psychotropic medications for adults with Intellectual Disabilities: sCOPing (RAPID-COP)
Lead Applicant: Professor Shoumitro (Shoumi) Deb
Conflicts: Professor Mari Carmen Portillo, Professor Rebecca Kearney and Professor Richard G Watt
Outcome: Conditional Support
Professor Richard G Watt resumed the chair
NIHR207602: Development of the Global Mental Health Assessment Tool – Intellectual Disability (GMHAT-ID) to improve health outcomes in people with intellectual disability
Lead Applicant: Mrs Rachel Mills
Conflicts: Professor Penny Bee
Outcome: Reject
Professor Rebecca Kearney assumed the chair
NIHR207614: A digital social intervention to modify the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease within an at-risk cohort: Intervention development and co-design of its evaluation
Lead Applicant: Dr Laura Smith
Conflicts: Professor Stephanie Taylor
Outcome: Reject
NIHR207632: PLanning for futurE cAre in Dementia (PLEAD)
Lead Applicant: Dr Ana Barbosa
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR207635: Improving outcomes for informal carers of critical care survivors: prioritising inclusivity and diversity
Lead Applicant: Professor Joanne McPeake
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR207640: Cognitive-behavioural therapy for adults with mild to moderate anorexia nervosa: A pilot study of a cost-effective intervention
Lead Applicant: Professor Glenn Waller
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR207643: Screening for social determinants of health in primary care: A feasibility study
Lead Applicant: Dr Emma Parry
Conflicts: Mr John Pemberton and Professor Stephanie Taylor
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR207652: INTERACT - Understanding inclusivity in oncology clinical trials: a data-driven approach
Lead Applicant: Ms Rebecca Lewis
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR207656: BWELL: Feasibility study of a new type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patient self-management protocol in populations with health inequalities and co-morbidities, to improve long term patient outcomes and wellbeing
Lead Applicant: Professor Sukhwinder Singh Shergill
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR207559: Development and feasibility study of a remote NHS group-based behaviour change intervention for people with severe obesity (Virtual-PROGROUP)
Lead Applicant: Dr Dawn Swancutt
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR207604:Understanding opportunities for enhancing shared decision-making for high-risk patients considering major surgery through changes in organisational and clinical contexts
Lead Applicant: Dr Tim Stephens
Conflicts: Mx Anica Alvarez Nishio
Outcome:Conditional Support
Professor Richard G Watt resumed the chair
NIHR207616: DIScovery COlleges – Exploration and conceptualisation (DISCOE)
Lead Applicant: Dr Dan Hayes
Conflicts: Professor Penny Bee
Outcome:Reject
NIHR207626: Identification, development and assessment of a sleep bolt on(s) to the EQ-5D-5L health-related quality of life measure – a sequential mixed methods study
Lead Applicant: Dr Yaling Yang
Conflicts: Professor Rebecca Kearney and Professor Tim Coleman
Outcome: Reject
NIHR207633: Optimising management of fatigue, pain, and faecal urgency/incontinence symptoms via a digital self-management intervention with facilitator support for people diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease and reporting irritable bowel symptoms (IBD-IBS)
Lead Applicant: Dr Wladyslawa Czuber-Dochan
Conflicts: Professor Stephanie Taylor
Outcome: Reject
NIHR207646: PROACTIVE: HePatitis C Reinfection: Optimising surveillAnCe for deTectIon and preVEntion
Lead Applicant: Dr Hannah Family
Conflicts: Dr Elsa Marques and Professor Rebecca Kearney
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR207647: Informing the IMP2ART programme about the views and priorities expressed through ‘X’ of people living with asthma during World Asthma Week 2024: the IMP2ART-X project
Lead Applicant: Dr Tracy Jackson
Conflicts: Professor Stephanie Taylor
Outcome: Reject
Professor Stephanie Taylor left the meeting
NIHR207648: Developing an Assessment for Low-risk Patients by SLTs (Speech and Language Therapists) in Head and Neck (ALPS-HN)
Lead Applicant: Mrs Louise Occomore-Kent
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR207649: Uptake and engagement of a digital self-management education programme in early-onset type 2 diabetes
Lead Applicant: Dr Michelle Hadjiconstantinou
Conflicts: Professor Gavin Murphy
Outcome: Reject
NIHR207650: Investigating equity and fairness concerns in the data, prediction model, and implementation of the personalised renal function monitoring tool for individuals with heart failure (RENAL-HF) project: Expanding user guidelines and information
Lead Applicant: Dr David Jenkins
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support