Day 1 - 4 July 2023
Venue
Virtual via Microsoft Teams
Present members
- Olivia Wu (Chair)
- Rakesh Heer (Deputy Chair)
- Andrew Farmer (Programme Director)
- Elizabeth Camacho
- Hannah de Merode (Public Committee Member)
- Jon Dorling
- Francesca Fiorentino
- Paul French
- Katie Gillies
- Joanne Haviland
- Gurdeep Sagoo
- Kapil Sayal
- Elizabeth Warburton
- James Wason
- David Weller
- Claudia Cooper
- Munyaradzi Dimairo
- Edward Wilson
- Sheona St Hilaire (Public Committee Member)
- James Glasbey (Committee Member Development Scheme Participant)
- Stamatina Iliodromiti
- Janet Deane
- Jennifer Bostock (Public Committee Member)
- Bethan Woods
Secretariat
- Nick Hicks
- Karen Williams
- Brogan Ashley
- Kathy Tier
- Hebe Sims
Apologies
- Jonathan Rees
- Nigel Rees
- Daniel Hind (arrived at 15:15 )
- Elena Pizzo
- Alun Davies
- James Glaseby
Observers
- Ruth Ensom
- Samantha Bourke
Quoracy information
- Voting members: 29
- Quorum = 18 = 66%
- Emergency Quorum = 14 = 50%
- Voting members present on Day 1: 23
Stage 2 applications
22/114 NICE Rolling Call
NIHR157097 - Big Toe OstEoarthritis (Big TOE) Trial: Inserts (Michael Backhouse)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Jon Dorling
Decision: Programme Oversight Committee to consider fund with changes
22/114 NICE Rolling Call (HTA Programme: Sept 22 - Jan 23)
NIHR156500 - Are advanced airway protection, secretions removal and cuff pressure maintenance systems effective for mechanically ventilated patients on intensive care? (Gareth Kitchen)
Chair: Rakesh Heer
Conflicts: Olivia Wu, Janet Deane
Decision: Programme Oversight Committee to consider fund with changes
22/112 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
NIHR157107 - Stroke prophylaxis with Apixaban in Chronic Kidney Disease stage 5 patients with Atrial fibrillation (Fergus Caskey)
Chair: Rakesh Heer
Conflicts: Katie Gillies, Olivia Wu
Decision: Decline
22/112 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
NIHR157427 - Treatment of 400µm or more centre-involving Diabetic macular oedema with Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) monotherapy versus Anti-VEGF and subthreshold Micropulse lasEr (SML) given when central retinal thickness is reduced below 400µm (DAME): A pragmatic randomised equivalence trial. (Noemi Lois)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Katie Gillies, Rakesh Heer, Hannah de Merode
Decision: Programme Oversight Committee to consider fund with changes
22/112 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
NIHR157478 - Antibiotics for acute lower respiratory tract infection in older people (Mark Lown)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Katie Gillies, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Jennifer Bostock, Gurdeep Sagoo, Janet Deane
Decision: Programme Oversight Committee to consider fund with changes
22/115 NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships Rolling Call (HTA Programme: Sept 22 - Jan 23)
NIHR155875 - Timing Of Nutrition In emergenCy laparotomy (TONIC) - A randomised trial comparing early parenteral nutrition vs standard nutritional care following emergency laparotomy. (Matthew Lee)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Paul French, Katie Gillies, Daniel Hind, Bethan Woods, Munyaradzi Dimairo
Decision: Programme Oversight Committee to consider fund with changes
22/176 Fast-track study: DISC-2
NIHR157589 - Dupuytren’s Interventions Surgery vs Collagenase – Medium Term Follow Up Study to investigate recurrence, revision surgery, changes in patient perceptions and cost effectiveness (DISC-2). (Joseph Dias)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Elizabeth Camacho, Daniel Hind, Kapil Sayal, Jennifer Bostock, Bethan Woods
Decision: Decline
23/51 Fast track LOLIPOP
NIHR159174 - The Long-term Outcomes of Lidocaine Infusions for persistent PostOperative Pain in patients undergoing breast surgery (LOLIPOP) Trial - UK arm (Mark Edwards)
Chair: Rakesh Heer
Conflicts: Katie Gillies, Jennifer Bostock
Decision: Programme Oversight Committee to consider fund with changes
23/13 Fast track Neo-TAXIS
NIHR158196 - NeoTAXIS: The UK arm of an international multicentre randomised clinical trial comparing targeted axillary surgery and radiotherapy with axillary clearance in patients with node positive breast cancer who have residual axillary disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (Shelley Potter)
Chair: Andrew Farmer
Conflicts: Joanne Haviland, Gurdeep Sagoo, Rakesh Heer, Olivia Wu
Decision: Decline
Stage 1 applications
23/4 NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships Rolling Call (HTA Programme: Jan 23 - May 23)
NIHR158400 - TADPOLE: A multicentre, pragmatic, phase III randomised controlled trial comparing Targeted Axillary Dissection vs axillary node clearance in patients with POsitive axillary Lymph nodes in Early breast cancer (Shelley Potter)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Katie Gillies, Joanne Haviland, Daniel Hind, Gurdeep Sagoo, Andrew Farmer
Decision: Shortlist
23/4 NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships Rolling Call (HTA Programme: Jan 23 - May 23)
NIHR159030 - Big Toe OstEoarthritis (Big TOE) Injection Trial (Michael Backhouse)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Jon Dorling
Arrived: Dan Hind has joined the meeting
Decision: Decline
23/1 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
NIHR157800 - FAST-Forward Boost: A randomised clinical trial testing a one-week course of curative simultaneous integrated boost radiotherapy against a standard 3-week schedule in patients with early breast cancer (Anna Kirby)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Elizabeth Camacho, Joanne Haviland, Elena Pizzo, Bethan Woods, Rakesh Heer
Decision: Shortlist
23/1 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
NIHR159585 - Requirement fOr Surgery after ERCP (ROSE) (Giles Toogood)
Chair: Rakesh Heer
Conflicts: Katie Gillies, Daniel Hind, Gurdeep Sagoo
Decision: Shortlist
23/1 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
NIHR159595 - PRostatEctomy Surgery In low-volume DissEminated prostate cancer in addition to Neo-adjuvant systemic therapy +/- radioTherapy: a randomised controlled trial (PRESIDENT) (Prasanna Sooriakumaran)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Katie Gillies, Rakesh Heer, Jennifer Bostock, Andrew Farmer
Decision: Shortlist
23/1 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
NIHR158902 - Getting Recovery Right After Neck Dissection for Head and Neck Cancer (GRRAND) (Toby Smith)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Jon Dorling, Edward Wilson, Andrew Farmer
Decision: Shortlist
23/1 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
NIHR158678 - CLArithromycin for Stroke associated Pneumonia (CLASP): A prospective, randomised open-label blinded-endpoint (PROBE) phase 3 multicentre trial (Craig Smith)
Chair: Rakesh Heer
Conflicts: Elizabeth Camacho, Elizabeth Warburton, James Wason, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Olivia Wu
Left the meeting: Paul French left the meeting
Decision: Shortlist
23/1 HTA Researcher-led call Primary Research
NIHR159123 - Clinical and cost-effectiveness of a tailored pre-operative sleep intervention for patients undergoing total knee and hip replacement: The REST randomised controlled trial (Katie Whale)
Chair: Olivia Wu
Conflicts: Janet Deane
Decision: Decline