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HSDR Funding Committee Public Minutes May 2022

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Published: 24 June 2022

Version: 1.0 - June 2022

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Day One - Wednesday 18th May

Venue

Danubius Hotel, Trueman 1, Regents Park, 18 Lodge Road, St. John’s Wood, London, NW8 7JT

Present Members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Chair and Deputy Programme Director)
  • Alan Smith (Public Committee Member)
  • Alexis Foster (Committee Member Development Scheme Participant)
  • Annette Boaz
  • Carol Rivas
  • Doreen Joseph (Public Committee Member)
  • Fiona Verity
  • James Rimmer
  • Jenny Burton (Committee Member Development Scheme Participant)
  • Jill Maben
  • Linda Parton (Public Committee Member)
  • Louise Wallace
  • Margaret Cheng (Public Committee Member)
  • Rachel Meacock
  • Rebecca Harris
  • Stephen Bradley
  • Victoria Tatton

Secretariat

  • Suzy Hopper
  • Tara Lamont
  • Donna White
  • Claire Fenton
  • Abi Chalk

Apologies

  • Parveen Ali
  • Debra Bick
  • Laura Bojke
  • Dawn Craig
  • Lorna Gibson
  • Mona Kanaan
  • Andrew Price
  • Carl Thompson
  • Sarah Purdy 

Observers

  • Dawn Edge, Professor of Mental Health & Inclusivity, University of Manchester
  • Emma Small, Senior Prioritisation and Dissemination Manager, Welsh Government

Quoracy Information

Voting members: 25 (Quoracy = 66% = 16.7)
Voting members present on Day 1: 16 (64%)
Due to the late apologies, emergency quoracy was utilised for the meeting.

 

Stage One Applications

21/610 Researcher-Led

NIHR152665 - How can Mental Health Trusts implement new roles to maximise benefits for staff, service users and organisations? (Damian Hodgson, The University of Sheffield)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Alexis Foster 

Decision: Shortlist

NIHR152325 - Integrating preventive approaches to oral health into a non-dental primary care setting; what works for whom, why and in what circumstances (Andrew Sturrock, University of Sunderland)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rebecca Harris, Jill Maben 

Decision: Decline

NIHR152347 - Physical literacy intervention for primary care staff and people with long-term conditions delivered by a community exercise physiologist to promote physical activity and enhance physical function.
Acronym: Activity Consultations To Improve Function (ACTIF) (Nefyn Williams, University of Liverpool)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rebecca Harris, Annette Boaz

Decision: Decline


NIHR152651 - Prevention in Practice (PiP) (Laura Heath, University of Oxford)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Stephen Bradley

Decision: Decline

NIHR152369 - Multimorbidity Among People with Serious mental illness (MAPS): Mapping disease clusters, risk factors, trajectories, and outcomes (Rowena Jacobs, University of York)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: No Conflicts

Decision: Decline

NIHR152138 - Improving carer identification and support for informal carers of people with Parkinson’s: a project co-producing two new interventions (Jane Simpson, Lancaster University)

Chair: None

Declared a conflict and did not score: No Conflicts

Decision: Decline

 

21/611 NICE Rolling Call

NIHR152057 - Obstetric Bleeding Study UK (OBS UK) (Sarah Bell, Cardiff University)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Kathryn Rowan

Decision: Shortlist

NIHR152542 - LYME-COS – Achieving consensus on what to measure, and how to measure it, for Lyme disease research (Nicola Harman, University of Liverpool)

Chair: None

Declared a conflict and did not score: Rebecca Harris

Decision: Decline

 

Day Two - Thursday 19th May

Venue

Danubius Hotel, Trueman 1, Regents Park, 18 Lodge Road, St. John’s Wood, London, NW8 7JT

Present Members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Deputy Programme Director)
  • Alan Smith (Public Committee Member)
  • Alexis Foster (Committee Member Development Scheme Participant)
  • Annette Boaz
  • Carol Rivas
  • Doreen Joseph (Public Committee Member)
  • Fiona Verity
  • James Rimmer
  • Jenny Burton (Committee Member Development Scheme Participant)
  • Jill Maben
  • Linda Parton (Public Committee Member)
  • Louise Wallace
  • Margaret Cheng (Public Committee Member)
  • Rachel Meacock
  • Rebecca Harris
  • Stephen Bradley
  • Victoria Tatton

Secretariat

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

Apologies

  • Parveen Ali
  • Debra Bick
  • Laura Bojke
  • Dawn Craig 
  • Lorna Gibson
  • Mona Kanaan
  • Andrew Price
  • Sarah Purdy
  • Carl Thompson

Observers

  • Dawn Edge, Professor of Mental Health & Inclusivity, University of Manchester
  • Emma Small, Senior Prioritisation and Dissemination Manager, Welsh Government
  • Karen Stenner, RDS Adviser, University of Surrey

Quoracy Information

Voting members: 25 (Quoracy = 17 = 66%)
Voting members present on Day 2: 16 (64%)
Due to the late apologies, emergency quoracy was utilised for the meeting.

 

Stage Two Applications

22/15 Fast track Resubmission May 2022

NIHR152238 - Sessional Use of Respiratory protective Equipment (SURE) Trial: a randomised controlled trial to assess the effect of different strategies of respiratory protective equipment use on COVID-19 related sickness absence among healthcare workers in England (Colin Brown, UK Health Security Agency)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: None

Decision: Decline


21/505 NIHR Dementia Call

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

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Alexis Foster 

Decision: Fund with changes


22/16 HSDR Straight to Stage Two Resubmission May 2022

NIHR152277 - Quantifying, Understanding and Enhancing Relational Continuity of Care (QUERCC) (Tom Marshall, University of Birmingham)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith

Decision: Fund with changes


21/10 HSDR Researcher-led Straight two stage call (July)

NIHR135315 - Improving Social Support and Recovery for Young People Affected by Long Covid: Qualitative Study (Tim Rhodes, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Chair: Steph Garfield-Birbeck

Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith, Kathryn Rowan, Annette Boaz

Decision: Fund with changes


21/612 Evidence Synthesis

NIHR152115 - Integrated Palliative Care in Oncology: a Realist Synthesis (Joanne Reid, The Queen’s University of Belfast)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: No Conflicts

Decision: Fund with change

 

NIHR152256 - Alcohol consumption and adherence to medicines in people with long-term conditions: a multi-method evidence synthesis of risk, consequences and clinical management (Duncan Stewart, London Metropolitan University)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

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

Decision: Decline

 

NIHR152375 - A realist review to explain how, for whom and in what circumstances post-incident support works following restrictive intervention use in mental health inpatient settings: SupporT after Restrictive InterVEntions (STRIVE-MH) (Nutmeg Hallett, University of Birmingham)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith, Doreen Joseph, Alexis Foster

Decision: Decline