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HSDR Funding Committee Public Minutes May 2023

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Published: 23 June 2023

Version: 1.0 - June 2023

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Day One - Wednesday 17 May 2023

Venue

  • virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams 

Present Members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Chair and Deputy Programme Director)
  • Alan Smith (Public Committee Member)
  • Alexis Foster
  • Angela Ruddock (Public Committee Member)
  • Annette Boaz
  • Clarissa Giebel
  • Debra Bick
  • Doreen Joseph
  • Duncan Stewart
  • Enya Daynes (Committee Member Development Scheme Participant)
  • Fiona Verity
  • Greg Irving
  • Laura Bojke
  • Linda Parton (Public Committee Member)
  • Lisa Hinton
  • Lorna Gibson (Deputy Chair)
  • Mark Cadman
  • Nicola Walsh
  • Rachel Meacock

Secretariat

  • Tara Lamont
  • Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
  • Suzy Hopper
  • Claire Fenton
  • Irene Moreno Millan
  • Abi Chalk
  • Emma Davies

Apologies

  • Andrew Price
  • Elisabeth Atlan
  • Godfred Boahen
  • Mona Kanaan
  • Parveen Ali
  • Rebecca Harris

Observers

  • Elizabeth Robertson – Director of Research from Diabetes UK
  • Richard Buchanan – Identification and Prioritisation team at NIHR Coordinating Centre (Southampton)
  • Lisa Nicholas – Research Inclusion Manager, NIHR Coordinating Centre (Southampton)

Quoracy Information

  • Voting members: 24 (Quoracy = 66% = 16)
  • Voting members present on Day One: 18 (75%)


Stage One Applications

22/143 Improving Services for People Living with Diabetes

NIHR158473 Evaluating staff training and implementation in care homes to improve diabetes care for older adults (Mary Cherry, University of Liverpool)

Chair: Lorna Gibson

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rebecca Harris, Clarissa Giebel, Fiona Verity 

Decision: Decline

NIHR158442 Digital multi-component intervention to IMPROVE the care of older people living with Diabetes and chronic Kidney Disease: a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster randomised trial in primary care (Short title: IMPROVE DKD Trial) (Indranil Dasgupta, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: Lorna Gibson

Declared a conflict and left the room: Linda Parton, Laura Bojke, Judith Smith, Nicki Walsh, Deb Bick

Decision: Shortlist

22/164 Researcher-Led

NIHR158218 Impact and inequalities of winter pressures in primary care: providing the evidence base for mitigation strategies (Rosalind Eggo, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Chair: Kath Checkland

Declared a conflict and left the room: Nicki Walsh, Lorna Gibson, Judith Smith, Kathy Rowan, Annette Boaz 

Decision: Shortlist


NIHR158513 Community Emergency Medicine Services (CEMS) to Manage Winter Pressures; A Mixed Methods Realist Evaluation. (Jonathan Benger, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Nicki Walsh, Lorna Gibson 

Decision: Shortlist


NIHR158355 Tackling winter pressures by improving patients flows in paediatric emergency departments (Andrew Judge, University of Bristol)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Nicki Walsh 

Decision: Shortlist


NIHR157622 Organisation of eye care services for adults and children following acquired brain injury and in cerebral visual impairment (Lauren Hepworth, University of Liverpool)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rebecca Harris, Clarissa Giebel, Mark Cadman 

Decision: Shortlist


NIHR158641 A mixed-methods investigation into the long-term effectiveness of IAPT for patients with selected long-term conditions and co-existing depression and/or anxiety disorders (Alex Dregan, King’s College London)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Alexis Foster 

Decision: Decline


NIHR158676 Mixed methods study to understand the scale, impact and care trajectory for patients who have long lie after a fall. (Fiona Sampson, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Laura Bojke, Alexis Foster 

Decision: Shortlist


NIHR158488 Improving quality of postnatal information, care planning and care outcomes across health systems in England: a mixed methods study (Rebecca Taylor, University of Warwick)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Debra Bick, Lisa Hinton, Judith Smith 

Decision: Shortlist


NIHR157976 Optimising the use of Professionally Trained Interpreters in maternity services of England (Jennifer MacLellan, University of Oxford)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Lorna Gibson, Deb Bick, Kathy Rowan, Lisa Hinton, Laura Bojke 

Decision: Shortlist


NIHR158498 Understanding the role of pharmacy support staff in prevention interventions: A realist review (Andrew Sturrock, Northumbria University)

Chair: Lorna Gibson

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rebecca Harris, Duncan Stewart, Lisa Hinton

Decision: Decline

22/562 Children and Young People's Mental Health

NIHR158006 Transforming Neurodevelopmental Pathways for Children and Adolescents: exploring pathways towards needs led healthcare services for neurodivergent children and adolescents and their families (Neurodevelopmental Pathways) (Silvana Mareva, University of Exeter)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Alexis Foster

Decision: Decline

NIHR158011 Improving access to mental health services for autistic children and young people (Emma Ashworth, Liverpool John Moores University)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: No Conflicts

Decision: Decline

NIHR157415 Optimising the delivery of mental health and mental health support to adolescents looked-after via adolescent-focused low-intensity life story work: a realist evaluation with co-design [LIMITLESS 2] (Simon Hammond) (University of East Anglia)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Lisa Hinton 

Decision: Shortlist

NIHR158484 ENGAGE: Improving the engagement and delivery of mental health services for CYP from seldom heard groups (Nicola Evans, Cardiff University)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rachel Meacock

Decision: Shortlist

NIHR158624 Improving mental health and neurodevelopmental pathways from CHAT (Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool) within the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate (Charlotte Lennox, The University of Manchester)

Chair: Lorna Gibson

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rachel Meacock

Decision: Decline

NIHR158809 EN-CAMHS 2: Enhancing CAMHS Referrals (Kathryn Abel) (Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rachel Meacock, Laura Bojke, Angela Ruddock 

Decision: Shortlist

NIHR158509 Evaluating the Implementation of a Mental Health Joint Response Car with Young People and Families (Sarah Parry, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Lisa Hinton, Rachel Meacock

Decision: Shortlist



NIHR158583 Wait Less: Co-designing and Evaluating An Online Self-Help Brief Psychosocial Intervention (eBPI) For Young People With Mood Related Mental Health Problems To Reduce Waiting Lists in Specialist CYPMHS. (Tamsin Ford, University of Cambridge)

Chair: Lorna Gibson

Declared a conflict and left the room: Lisa Hinton, Judith Smith 

Decision: Shortlist

NIHR158823 A scalable system for the identification and support of mental health needs for young people (Jessica Deighton, Anna Freud Centre)

Chair: None

Declared a conflict and did not score: None

Decision: Decline

Day Two - Thursday 18 May 2023

Venue

  • virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams 

Present Members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Chair and Deputy Programme Director)
  • Alan Smith (Public Committee Member)
  • Alexis Foster
  • Angela Ruddock (Public Committee Member)
  • Annette Boaz
  • Clarissa Giebel
  • Debra Bick
  • Doreen Joseph
  • Enya Daynes (Committee Member Development Scheme Participant)
  • Fiona Verity
  • Greg Irving
  • Linda Parton (Public Committee Member)
  • Lisa Hinton
  • Lorna Gibson (Deputy Chair)
  • Mona Kanaan
  • Nicola Walsh
  • Rachel Meacock
  • Rebecca Harris

Secretariat

  • Tara Lamont
  • Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
  • Suzy Hopper
  • Irene Moreno Millan
  • Maria Oosterwijk
  • Emma Davies

Apologies

  • Andrew Price
  • Elisabeth Atlan
  • Duncan Stewart
  • Godfred Boahen
  • Laura Bojke
  • Mark Cadman
  • Parveen Ali

Observers

  • Petra Makela - Associate Committee Member (Annette Boaz)
  • Richard Buchanan – Identification and Prioritisation team at NIHR Coordinating Centre (Southampton)
  • Rebecca Kandiyali - RDS Advisor, University of Warwick

Quoracy Information

  • Voting members: 24 (Quoracy = 66% = 16)
  • Voting members present on Day One: 17 (71%)

Stage Two Applications

22/116 NICE Rolling Call

NIHR156488 Improving kidney failure risk calculations in ethnically diverse populations (Mariam Molokhia, King's College London)

Chair: Kath Checkland

Declared a conflict and left the room: Lorna Gibson, Kathy Rowan, Judith Smith

Decision: Fund with changes


22/102 Supporting the Delivery of Net Zero Health and Social Care System

NIHR155944 A multI-centre study to coMpare the carbon footPRINT, patient experience and resources of standard and hypofractionated radiotherapy (IMPRINT) (Robert Chuter, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rachel Meacock, Angela Ruddock

Decision: Fund with Changes

22/103 Delivering a Sustainable Health and Care System

NIHR155444 Freight as a Service for the NHS (FaaS NHS) (Janet Dickinson, Bournemouth University)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Lorna Gibson, Judith Smith 

Decision: Reject

22/117 Researcher-led

NIHR156314 OPTICAL: Optimising Paediatric Transition to Intensive Care for AduLts (Sonya Crowe, University College London)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Lisa Hinton, Kathy Rowan 

Decision: Fund with Changes

NIHR156452 Getting the bloods to the laboratory: developing interventions to improve the blood culture pathway for patient safety and antimicrobial stewardship (Carolyn Tarrant, University of Leicester)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith

Decision: Fund with Changes

NIHR155323 Increasing engagement and patient experience of cervical screening in primary care: Implementing the left lateral test position (Nicola Walsh, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board)

Chair: Lorna Gibson

Declared a conflict and left the room: Nicki Walsh 

Decision: Not fund
Post-meeting decision made by the Programme Director to invite team to revise and resubmit application 

NIHR156216 Understanding and improving endometriosis experiences: a qualitative study into patient and healthcare professionals' experiences of management, diagnosis and treatment (Abigail McNiven, University of Oxford)

Chair: Lorna Gibson

Declared a conflict and left the room: Deb Bick, Lisa Hinton, Kathy Rowan

Decision: Fund with Changes

NIHR156125 CARer ADministration of as-needed subcutaneous medication for breakthrough symptoms in people dying at home in the UK: the CARiAD realist evaluation (Marlise Poolman, Bangor University)

Chair: Judith Smith

Declared a conflict and left the room: Alan Smith, Annette Boaz, Lisa Hinton 

Decision: Reject


22/125 Improving Access and Use of Services for People with Speech, Language, and Communication Needs

NIHR155921 COMmunicating in STroke cAre and Rehabilitation (COM-STAR): Improving staff communication skills for better access to and inclusion in care and rehabilitation for stroke survivors with communication impairments (Rebecca Palmer, The University of Sheffield)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Mona Kanaan, Clarissa Giebel, Alexis Foster, Annette Boaz

Decision: Fund with Changes

NIHR156329 PLACES: Promoting Local Access to Children’s Early language and communication Support (Lindsay Pennington, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Rebecca Harris 

Decision: Fund with Changes

NIHR156132 Improving access to mental health services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (Emma Pagnamenta, University of Reading)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith

Decision: Reject

Stage One Applications

22/132 Optimal Models for Reablement Services

NIHR157899 Selecting reablement models that best support older people leaving hospital after an unplanned admission (Catherine Henderson, London School of Economics & Political Science)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

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

Decision: Shortlist

22/563 Evaluating New Models of Care for Children and Young People with Excess Weight and Related Complications

NIHR158954 Optimising specialist services for children and young people with severe obesity: a mixed methods evaluation of "Complications of Excess Weight" (CEW) pilot clinics (Billy White, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Lorna Gibson, Judith Smith

Decision: Decline

NIHR158453 ENHANCE - Evaluating the NHs englANd Complications from Excess weight clinics (Catherine Homer, Sheffield Hallam University)

Chair: Kathy Rowan

Declared a conflict and left the room: Alexis Foster

Decision: Shortlist