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HSDR Funding Committee Public Minutes March 2023

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Published: 23 May 2023

Version: 1.0- May 2023

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Day One - Wednesday 29 March 2023

Venue

  • virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams 

Present Members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Chair and Deputy Programme Director)
  • Kath Checkland (Deputy Chair)
  • Adine Adonis
  • Zenab Barry (Public Committee Member)
  • Lucy Beishon (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Edmund Brooks (Public Committee Member)
  • Katie Featherstone
  • Beatriz Goulao
  • Axel Kaehne
  • Rashmi Kumar (Public Committee Member)
  • Joanne McPeake
  • Graham Martin
  • Michael Molete (Public Committee Member)
  • Alicia O’Cathain
  • Rachel Spencer
  • Alan Watkins
  • Yize Wan (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Ge Yu

Secretariat

  • Suzy Hopper
  • Tara Lamont
  • Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
  • Claire Fenton
  • Sophie Cherrie

Apologies

  • Kam Bhui
  • Dawn Dowding
  • Andrea Williamson
  • Gerald McKenna

Observers

  • Darren Dunning - RDS Adviser

Quoracy Information

  • Voting members: 21 (Quoracy = 66% = 14)
  • Voting members present on Day 1: 17 (81%)

Stage One Applications

22/134 HSDR Researcher-Led Call

NIHR157268 - Increasing retention of healthcare staff from ethnic minority groups (I-CARE) (Manish Pareek & Katherine Woolf, University of Leicester)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Joanne McPeake
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR157356 - The impact of organisational and team strategies for workforce resilience in healthcare settings: An umbrella review (Dean Whybrow, Cardiff University
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Rashmi Kumar, Katie Featherstone,
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR157212 - Secondary Mental Health Treatment Requirements: Evaluation of the Pilot Programme (Louise Robinson, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Michael Molete
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR157247 - HIV and digital health: leaving no one behind (HANDLE) (Shema Tariq & Jo Gibbs, University College London)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith
Decision: Decline

NIHR156826 - Improving outcomes for vulnerable children – using a linked-data approach to understand care-entry risk factors and associated outcomes for evidence-informed policy and service provision. (Natasha Kennedy & Sinead Brophy, Swansea University)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Rashmi Kumar, Axel Kaehne, Katie Featherstone, Edmund Brooks, Alan Watkins, Katherine Checkland
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR156922 - TaILOR - trial of patient-initiated care leading to improved outcomes in rheumatology (Laura Coates, University of Oxford)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Katie Featherstone
Decision: Post-meeting decision made by the Programme Director to Shortlist due to the split vote.

NIHR157615 - Mitigation of conflicts of interest in medical advice A 3 year programme of work to help citizens, patients and professionals use and/or make effective declarations of interest. (Margaret McCartney, University of St Andrews)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Graham Martin, Axel Kaehne, Judith Smith
Decision: Decline

NIHR157616 - Orthoptic stroke services: establishing services and evaluating service and patient outcomes: I-Service study. (Fiona Rowe) (University of Liverpool)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR157810 - Widening contraceptive access and use through inclusive principles for contraceptive service design: co-designed mixed method case study research with marginalised user groups. (Rachael Eastham & Mark Limmer, Lancaster University)
Chair: Katherine Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Graham Martin, Joanne McPeake, Judith Smith
Decision: Decline

NIHR156468 - Co-design and feasibility randomised control trial of a community Pharmacy based behavioural inteRvention to rEduce inequaliTies in the Uptake of Routine deNtal care. (P-RETURN) (Andrew Sturrock) (Northumbria University)
Chair: None
Declared a conflict and did not score: Beatriz Goulao
Decision: Decline

NIHR156332 - Understanding and addressing information needs, practices and decisions for ‘delicate diagnoses' in UK primary care: a mixed methods study. (Margaret McCartney, University of St Andrews)
Declared a conflict and did not score: Joanne McPeake, Graham Martin, Andrea Williamson, Katie Featherstone
Decision: Decline

22/135 James Lind Alliance Call

NIHR157443 - Implementation of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment based perioperative medicine services to improve clinical outcomes for older patients undergoing elective and urgent surgery with cost effectiveness. [Short title; Perioperative medicine for Older People undergoing Surgery Scale Up (POPS SUp)] (Jugdeep Dhesi, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Beatriz Goulao, Joanne McPeake, Graham Martin, Lucy Beishon, Yize Wan, Judith Smith,
Decision: Post-meeting decision made by the Programme Director to Shortlist due to the split vote.

Stage Two Applications

22/75 HSDR Researcher-Led Call

NIHR154856 - Improving care and outcomes for patients with atrial flutter using advanced big data analytics on routine NHS data (cardAIc-AFL) (Dipak Kotecha, University of Birmingham)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Rachel Spencer, Judith Smith
Decision: Not Fund

NIHR153719 - Supporting the unmet mental health needs of unpaid dementia carers: A group-based reflective psychological intervention (Clarissa Giebel, University of Liverpool)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Graham Martin, Axel Kaehne,
Decision: Not Fund

Day Two - Thursday 30 March 2023

Venue

  • virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams 

Present Members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Chair and Deputy Programme Director)
  • Kath Checkland (Deputy Chair)
  • Adine Adonis
  • Zenab Barry (Public Committee Member)
  • Lucy Beishon (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Edmund Brooks (Public Committee Member)
  • Katie Featherstone
  • Beatriz Goulao
  • Axel Kaehne
  • Rashmi Kumar (Public Committee Member)
  • Joanne McPeake
  • Graham Martin
  • Michael Molete (Public Committee Member)
  • Alicia O’Cathain
  • Rachel Spencer
  • Alan Watkins
  • Yize Wan (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Andrea Williamson
  • Ge Yu

Secretariat

  • Suzy Hopper
  • Tara Lamont
  • Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
  • Irene Moreno Millan
  • Sophie Cherrie

Apologies

  • Kam Bhui
  • Dawn Dowding
  • Gerald McKenna

Observers

  • Annalisa Casarin - RDS Adviser

Quoracy Information

  • Voting members: 21 (Quoracy = 66% = 14)
  • Voting members present on Day 1: 18 (86%)

Stage Two Applications

22/75 HSDR Researcher-led call

NIHR155314 - Independent prescribing in community pharmacy; what works for whom, why and in what circumstances (Andrew Sturrock, Northumbria University)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Andrea Williamson, Rachel Spencer, Katherine Checkland
Decision: Fund

NIHR155654 - Understanding ethnic inequalities in antidepressant prescribing in primary care: diagnosis and treatment in the South Asian diaspora (Lydia Poole, University of Surrey)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Rachel Spencer
Decision: Fund

22/19 HSDR Researcher-led call – Re-submission

NIHR158312 - PHarmacy-first partnership delivering Antimicrobial Stewardship for EveryDay practice IN primary care (PHASED IN): development and feasibility study (Paul Little, University of Southampton)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Edmund Brooks, Rashmi Kumar
Decision: Fund

22/68 Health Inequalities in Overprescribing

NIHR155714 - Impact of an Intervention on Inequalities in Overprescribing - the 3i-o study (Sarah Alderson, University of Leeds)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O'Cathain, Beatriz Goulao,
Decision: Fund

NIHR155414 - Reducing health inequalities in people with learning (intellectual) disability by tackling the over-prescribing of antipsychotic drugs: a mixed methods study (Rory Sheehan, King’s College London)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Post-meeting decision made by the Programme Director to Not Fund due to the split vote.

NIHR155622 - Overprescribing for pain and distress in low income communities – understanding the origins and how primary care can support people better (Richard Byng, University of Plymouth)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Andrea Williamson, Rachel Spencer
Decision: Not Fund

NIHR153660 - Optimising Structured Medication Reviews for Older People with Severe Frailty and Care Home Residents to Reduce Overprescribing and Associated Inequalities (Andrew Clegg, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alan Watkins, Alicia O’Cathain
Decision: Fund