Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Microsoft. To browse the NIHR site please use a modern, secure browser like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge.

Home > About us > Document library > HSDR Funding Committee Public Minutes November 2022

HSDR Funding Committee Public Minutes November 2022

Contents

Published: 20 January 2023

Version: 1.0- January 2023

Print this document

Day 1 - Wednesday 23 November 2022

Venue

  • virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams 

Present members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Chair and Deputy Programme Director)
  • Kath Checkland (Deputy Chair)
  • Kamaldeep Bhui (Deputy Chair)
  • Grazia Antonacci (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Andrew Booth
  • Dawn Dowding
  • Sandra Duggan (Public Committee Member)
  • Katie Featherstone
  • Sebastian Hinde (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Jane Hopkinson
  • Rashmi Kumar (Public Committee Member)
  • Michael Molete (Public Committee Member)
  • Alan Watkins
  • Adele Webb (Public Committee Member)
  • Charlotte Williams

Secretariat

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

Apologies

  • Alicia O’Cathain
  • Andrea Williamson
  • Brendan Collins
  • Gerald McKenna
  • Rachel Spencer
  • Victoria Tzortziou-Brown

Observers

  • Rachel Eveley, RDS Adviser
  • Phoebe Wallace, NIHR Diversity and Inclusion Manager
  • Dr Axel Kaehne, Reader in Health Services Research, Edgehill University (New Committee Member)
  • Ms Adine Adonis, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Neurology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (New Committee Member)
  • Dr Joanne McPeake, Research Fellow/ Honorary Nurse Consultant, The Institute of Healthcare Improvement Studies/ NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (New Committee Member)
  • Dr Muhammad Usman, Senior Research Fellow in Medical Statistics, Staffordshire University (New Committee Member)
  • Dr Helen Elliott, Associate Professor in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing, University of Greenwich (New Committee Member)
  • Prof Duncan Stewart, Professor of Applied Health Research, London Metropolitan University (New Committee Member)
  • Dr Lisa Hinton, Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge (THIS Institute) (New Committee Member)
  • Remi Apata-Omisore (New Public Committee Member)
  • Zenab Barry (New Public Committee Member)
  • Edmund Brooks (New Public Committee Member)
  • Elisabeth Atlan (New Public Committee Member)

Quoracy information

  • voting members: 20 (Quoracy = 66% = 13.3)
  • voting members present on Day 1: 14 (70%)

Stage 1 applications

22/75 HSDR researcher-led call

NIHR154738 - The behavioural determinants of healthcare professionals support for breastfeeding in the NHS: A mixed methods evidence synthesis with stakeholder engagement. (Rachael Spencer, Sheffield Hallam University)

Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O’Cathain, Andrew Booth, Andrea Williamson, Sebastian Hinde
Decision: Decline

NIHR155463 - Creating inclusive Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in health and social care research: an evidence synthesis and development of guidance framework (Sarah Peters, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Katherine Checkland, Dawn Dowding
Decision: Decline

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: Kamaldeep Bhui
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR154263 - STrengthening Action-oriented Research in Social care and Healthcare: Informed by Pragmatism (STARSHIP) (Trisha Greenhalgh, University of Oxford)

Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Judith Smith
Decision: Decline

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: Kam Bhui
Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR153719 - Supporting the unmet mental health needs of unpaid dementia carers: A group-based reflective psychological intervention (Clarissa Giebel, University of Liverpool)

Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Jane Hopkinson
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR155557 - Prevention in Practice (PiP) (Laura Heath, University of Oxford)

Chair: None
Declared a conflict and did not score: Kamaldeep Bhui
Decision: Decline

NIHR155404 - Digital Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents: Stakeholder Pathways to Impact through Evidence Synthesis (Digital SPIES) (Lina Gega, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: None
Declared a conflict and did not score: None
Decision: Decline

Stage 2 applications

22/74 Straight to Stage 2 Fast Track Application (September 2022)

NIHR153982 - Modelling the resource requirements for implementation of mobile stroke units across the National Health Service, their cost-effectiveness, and their effect on equity of access to emergency stroke care. (Peter McMeekin, Northumbria University)

Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alan Watkins
Decision: Fund with changes

22/26 Evaluating the High Volume Low Complexity (HVLC) Surgical hubs model

NIHR153328 - Multi-Centre Mixed Methods Assessment of High Volume/ Low Complexity Hubs for Cataract Surgery (Alexander Day, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Andrew Booth, Katherine Checkland, Dawn Dowding, Alicia O'Cathain, Judith Smith, Adele Webb, Andrea Williamson, Sebastian Hinde, Katie Featherstone
Decision: Decline

NIHR153387 - The MEASURE study: Mixed Methods EvaluAtion of the high-volume low-complexity Surgical hUb pRogrammE. (Joy Adamson, University of York)

Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Andrew Booth, Katherine Checkland, Dawn Dowding, Alicia O'Cathain, Judith Smith, Adele Webb, Andrea Williamson, Sebastian Hinde, Katie Featherstone
Decision: Fund with changes

NIHR153586 - A mixed-methods evaluation of the High Volume Low Complexity (HVLC) surgical hubs model for all six priority surgical specialties (Andrew Judge, University of Bristol)

Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Andrew Booth, Katherine Checkland, Dawn Dowding, Alicia O'Cathain, Judith Smith, Adele Webb, Andrea Williamson, Sebastian Hinde, Katie Featherstone
Decision: Decline

NIHR153227 - Evaluating the High Volume Low Complexity (HVLC) surgical hubs model (Richard Lilford, University of Birmingham)

Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Andrew Booth, Katherine Checkland, Dawn Dowding, Alicia O'Cathain, Judith Smith, Adele Webb, Andrea Williamson, Sebastian Hinde, Katie Featherstone
Decision: Decline

21/577 Supporting the delivery of net zero health and social care system

NIHR153231 - Implementation of decarbonisation actions in General Practice to help achieve a net zero NHS. A mixed methods study of institutional, organisational, professional, and patient factors (GPNET-0 study) (Ana Raquel Nunes, University of Warwick)

Chair: Kam Bhui
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alan Watkins, Alicia O’Cathain, Rashmi Kumar, Judith Smith
Decision: Fund with changes

NIHR152311 - SUMU-Endo: Single-use versus Multiple-use Endoscopes in gastroenterology: multi methods analysis to balancing infection control and environmental impact (Ramesh Arasaradnam, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust)

Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Fund with changes

Day 2 - Thursday 24 November 2022

Venue

  • virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams 

Present members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Chair and Deputy Programme Director)
  • Kath Checkland (Deputy Chair)
  • Kamaldeep Bhui (Deputy Chair)
  • Grazia Antonacci (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Andrew Booth
  • Dawn Dowding
  • Sandra Duggan (Public Committee Member)
  • Katie Featherstone
  • Sebastian Hinde (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Jane Hopkinson
  • Rashmi Kumar (Public Committee Member)
  • Michael Molete (Public Committee Member)
  • Rachel Spencer
  • Victoria Tzortziou Brown
  • Alan Watkins
  • Adele Webb (Public Committee Member)

Secretariat

  • Suzy Hopper
  • Tara Lamont
  • Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
  • Lisa Stockwell
  • Sophie Cherrie

Apologies

  • Alicia O’Cathain
  • Andrea Williamson
  • Brendan Collins
  • Gerald McKenna
  • Charlotte Williams

Observers

  • Emma Small, Welsh DA Representative
  • Brian Crosbie, RDS Adviser
  • Phoebe Wallace, NIHR Diversity and Inclusion Manager
  • Dr Greg Irving, Reader in General Practice, Edgehill University (New Committee Member)
  • Dr Lisa Hinton - Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge (THIS Institute) (New Committee Member)
  • Edmund Brooks (New Public Committee Member)

Quoracy information

  • voting members: 20 (Quoracy = 66% = 13)
  • voting members present on Day 2: 15 (75%)

Stage 1 applications

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: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O’Cathain
Decision: Shortlist

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: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Andrew Booth
Decision: Reject
Post Committee meeting decision: Shortlist.

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: Reject
Post Committee meeting decision: Shortlist

NIHR153660 - Optimising Structured Medication Reviews for Older People to Reduce Overprescribing and Associated Inequalities (Andrew Clegg, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Andrew Booth, Dawn Dowding, Alicia O'Cathain, Alan Watkins, Sebastian Hinde
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR155222 - Effective iMPlementatiOn frameWork for bEhaviour support plans to facilitate Rationalising antipsychotic medication in adults with intEllectual Disabilities (EMPOWERED) (Shoumitro Deb, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust)

Chair: None
Declared a conflict and did not score: Judith Smith, Kamaldeep Bhui, Alan Watkins
Decision: Decline

NIHR155259 - Co-develOpment of CulturaRally appropriate DeprescrbINg to Address heath inequeTies in multi-Ethnic populations (COORDINATE-Study) (Lauren O’Mahoney, University of Leicester)

Chair: None
Declared a conflict and did not score: Judith Smith, Grazia Antonacci
Decision: Decline

NIHR155710 - Health Inequalities in Overprescribing (Rupert Payne, University of Exeter)

Chair: None
Declared a conflict and did not score: Dawn Dowding, Kath Checkland
Decision: Decline

22/75 HSDR researcher-led

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: Andrew Booth, Katherine Checkland, Andrea Williamson,
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR154740 - Enhancing equal access, opportunity, and engagement with social prescribing in all settings (The EQUISP Study) (Kerryn Husk, University of Plymouth)

Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui
Decision: Decline

Stage 2 applications

Deferred from 21/10 Researcher-led July 2021 call

NIHR134679 - Mixed-method evaluation of Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems to support advance care planning for people living with life-limiting conditions (Jonathan Koffman, University of Hull)

Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Alicia O'Cathain, Judith Smith, Rashmi Kumar, Victoria Tzortziou Brown
Decision: Decline

22/10 HSDR researcher-led

NIHR153152 - Evaluating the contribution of community nursing to end of life care: a mixed methods study (Sue Latter, University of Southampton)

Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Alicia O'Cathain, Judith Smith, Jane Hopkinson
Decision: Decline

NIHR153324 - How might Physician Associates help (or not) address the workforce crisis in the NHS? (Attakrit Leckcivilize, University of Oxford)

Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Andrew Booth, Andrea Williamson
Decision: Decline
Post Committee meeting decision: Fund with changes

NIHR153571 - Digital Health Participation of People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Longitudinal Modelling and Digital Diary Study (Darren Chadwick, University of Wolverhampton

Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alan Watkins
Decision: Fund with changes

NIHR153580 - SORT: Surgery Or RadioTherapy for early-stage cancer (Richard Grieve, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Chair: Kam Bhui
Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith, Kathryn Rowan
Decision: Fund with changes

NIHR153316 - PHarmacy-first partnership for Antimicrobial Stewardship in EveryDay practice IN primary care (Paul Little, University of Southampton)

Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kamaldeep Bhui, Alicia O'Cathain, Jane Hopkinson
Decision: Decline