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HSDR Funding Committee Public Minutes January 2022

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Published: 04 March 2022

Version: 1.0 March 2022

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Wednesday 19th January 2022

Venue

Virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams Meeting

Present Members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Deputy Programme Director)
  • Andrew Price
  • Annette Boaz 
  • Carl Thompson
  • Carol Rivas
  • Dawn Craig
  • Doreen Joseph (Public Committee Member)
  • James Rimmer
  • Jane Appleton
  • Jill Maben
  • Laura Bojke
  • Linda Parton (Public Committee Member)
  • Lorna Gibson
  • Louise Wallace
  • Mona Kanaan 
  • Parveen Ali 
  • Rachel Meacock
  • Sarah Purdy
  • Victoria Tatton

Secretariat

  • Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
  • Suzy Hopper
  • Tara Lamont
  • Donna White 
  • Lisa Stockwell
  • Abi Chalk

Apologies

  • Debra Bick
  • Stephen Bradley
  • Rebecca Harris
  • Fiona Verity
  • Dawn Edge

Observers

  • Grazia Antonacci, Research Associate, Imperial College London 
  • Sebastian Hinde, Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York
  • Jennifer Burton, Clinical Lecturer at Glasgow University and Honorary Specialist Registrar in Geriatric Medicine at Glasgow Royal Infirmary 
  • Alexis Foster, Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
  • Joanne McPeake, Nurse Consultant in Clinical Research and Innovation in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow
  • Ursula Wells, Department of Health and Social Care 
  • Petra Makela, Assistant Professor Health Services Research and Policy, LSHTM 

Quoracy Information

Voting members: 23 (Quoracy = 67% = 16)
Voting members present on Day 1: 18 (78%)

 

Stage One Proposals

21/514 NIHR NICE Rolling call

NIHR150748 – Pragmatic Evaluation of Effectiveness and Acceptability of the Bristol Medication Review Toolkit (BRISMED) (Rupert Payne, University of Bristol)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Sarah Purdy

Decision: Decline

 

NIHR150558 - The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a holistic needs assessment tool to guide early community-based review and follow up of people with non-malignant conditions, compared to usual care in reducing unmet supportive and palliative care need (Miriam Johnson, University of Hull)

Chair: None

Declared a conflict and did not score: Sarah Purdy, LauraBojke, Dawn Craig, Jill Maben, Mona Kanaan, Judith Smith, Rebecca Harris

Decisions: Decline

 

21/505 NIHR Dementia Call

NIHR150684 – The assessment, diagnosis, and disclosure of dementia during an acute hospital admission and the impacts on older people and their families: Understanding inequalities and improving expertise, experiences, and outcomes (Katie Featherstone, University of West London)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Kathy Rowan

Decision: Decline

 

NIHR150756 – Improving triadic decision-making involving people with dementia (Traci Walker) (The University of Sheffield)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Parveen Ali, Alexis Foster

Decision: Shortlist

 

Stage Two Proposals

20/115 Health and Social Care Workforce

NIHR133813 – The determinants of the utilisation of the support and assistant workforce in diagnostic imaging: a multi-methods investigation (Julie Nightingale, Sheffield Hallam University )

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: None

Decision: Fund

 

NIHR134942 - The impact of regulation and registration on the residential childcare workforce: comparing England and Wales. (Martin Elliott, Cardiff University)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Jill Maben

Decision: Fund with changes

 

NIHR135168 – A Study to Evaluate the Introduction of new Staffing Models in Intensive Care: a realist evaluation (SEISMIC-R) (Natalie Pattison, University of Hertfordshire)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Jill Maben, Kathy Rowan, Carol Rivas, Joanne McPeake

Decision: Fund with changes

 

NIHR133949 – Spread and evaluation of a retention bundle for late-career nurses, midwives and AHPs in an Integrated Care System (Stephen Timmons, University of Nottingham)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Jill Maben

Decision: Decline

 

NIHR134991 – Care Under Pressure 4: Improving mental health in nurses, midwives, and paramedics: a realist evaluation to co-design resources for the NHS Health and Wellbeing Framework (Cath Taylor, University of Surrey)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Jill Maben, Alexis Foster

Decision: Decline

 

NIHR134305 - Planning for Frailty: Optimal Health and Social Care Workforce Organisation Using Demand-led Simulation Modelling (FLOWS) (Bronagh Walsh, University of Southampton)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Jill Maben, Kathy Rowan – Collaboration

Decision: Fund with changes

 

21/10 Researcher-led

NIHR134999 – Engaging General Practice in a Net Zero NHS: a mixed methods realist evaluation of the Green Impact for Health Toolkit (The GPNET-0 study) (Joanna Fleming, University of Warwick)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith

Decision: Decline

 

NIHR134522 - The CONNECT Study: Understanding the Impact of Remote Consultations in Sexual and Reproductive Health Services on Health Inequalities (Louise Jackson, University of Birmingham)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith 

Decision: Decline

 

NIHR135009 – Waiting times in Emergency Departments: inequalities and impact on health outcomes (Catia Nicodemo, University of Oxford)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Jane Appleton, Rachel Meacock, Kathy Rowan

Decision: Decline

 

NIHR135128 - Supporting, enabling, and sustaining home care workers to deliver end-of-life care: a multiple-methods community-based case study (Miriam Johnson, University of Hull)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Jill Maben, Mona Kanaan, Sarah Purdy, Alexis Foster

Decision: Fund with changes

 

21/566 Straight to Stage Two Re-submission

NIHR150979 - Planning mode of birth in routine Antenatal care – development of a decision-aid (Plan-A) (Mairead Black, University of Aberdeen)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith, Jane Appleton, Dawn Craig, Jill Maben

Decision: Fund with changes

 

21/80 Winter Personal Equipment

NIHR135521 - WIPPET: The impact of different grades of respiratory protective equipment on sickness absence due to respiratory infections including SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare workers (Colin Brown, UK Health Security Agency)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Dawn Craig, Carl Thompson

Decision: Decline