Day 1 - Wednesday 20 September 2023
Venue
- Danubius Hotel, 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)
- Alan Watkins
- Alan Smith (Public Committee Member)
- Alexis Foster
- Angela Ruddock (Public Committee Member)
- Annette Boaz
- Clarissa Giebel
- Duncan Stewart
- Enya Daynes (Committee Member Development Scheme Participant)
- Greg Irving
- Jenni Burton
- Laura Bojke
- Linda Parton (Public Committee Member)
- Lorna Gibson (Deputy Chair)
- Mark Cadman (Public Committee Member)
- Nicola Walsh
- Parveen Ali
- Rachel Meacock
- Rebecca Harris
Secretariat
- Tara Lamont
- Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
- Suzy Hopper
- Claire Fenton
- Abi Chalk
Apologies
- Andrew Price
- Debra Bick
- Elisabeth Atlan
- Fiona Verity
- Godfred Boahen
- Lisa Hinton
Observers
- Maria Hassard, Assistant Director for Application and Funding, NIHR
- Tansy Evans, Assistant Director Strategic Commissioning (Health Services and Social Care), NIHR
- Gareth Hooper, Consultant Advisor, NIHR
- Paul Clarkson, RDS, Senior Lecturer in Social Care, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester
- Josie Jackson, Welsh Devolved Administration Representative
- Dawn Edge, Professor of Mental Health & Inclusivity, University of Manchester. Inclusion Observer.
Quoracy information
- Voting members: 24 (Quoracy = 66% = 16)
- Voting members present on Day One: 18 (75%)
Stage 1 applications
23/45 Researcher-led
NIHR159286 Implementing professional support for the voluntary sector workforce: A multi-case action research study (Alexis Foster, The University of Sheffield)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alexis Foster, Alan Smith, Parveen Ali
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR158510 CHildren and young people’s Options In the Community for Enhancing wellbeing through Social prescribing: Identifying and scaling effective practice (CHOICES2) (Vashti Berry, University of Exeter)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alexis Foster
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR159467 Accessible Results: enabling patients with diverse needs to access and understand their test results online (Jessica Watson, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Angela Ruddock, Deb Bick, Greg Irving, Rachel Meacock, Nicki Walsh, Paul Clarkson
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR159714 Strengthening Counter Fraud Provision across the NHS in England (Cerian Griffiths, Northumbria University)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Rachel Meacock, Paul Clarkson
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR160454 Patient-facing AI applications: Developing and applying an evaluation framework (Trisha Greenhalgh, University of Oxford)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Decline
NIHR160972 Investigating How Youth Worker Services for Young People with Physical and/or Mental Health Conditions are Organised, Provided and Experienced (Marie Marshall, The University of Manchester)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Rachel Meacock, Paul Clarkson
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR159197 Initiating and Maintaining Physical AcTivity in UnderServed communities among young adults (18-35 years) with depression. Acronym: IMPATUS (Katarzyna Machaczek, Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust)
Chair: Lorna Gibson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alexis Foster, Parveen Ali, Rachel Meacock, Paul Clarkson
Decision: Decline
NIHR158081 Understanding interventions to improve the quality of life of people with Parkinson’s with either dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a realist review and synthesis (Jane Simpson, Lancaster University)
Chair: Lorna Gibson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Clarissa Giebel
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR159653 Older Women's Experiences of HEalthcare mixed-methods Review (OWE HER) (Elizabeth Teale, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Chair: Lorna Gibson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Jenni Burton
Decision: Decline
NIHR160622 SeclUSioN USe iN pSychiatry (SUN): developing an evidence-base and training programme on seclusion use across five major care pathways (Paula Reavey, London South Bank University)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Rachel Meacock, Paul Clarkson
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR160824 Understanding the support needs of African and African-Caribbean people living with dementia, their care partners and families and the impacts of delayed support: identifying inclusive strategies to facilitate timely and culturally appropriate social care support (Shadreck Mwale, University of West London)
Chair: Lorna Gibson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kathy Rowan
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR160780 Barriers and facilitators for older adult vaccinations in rural and remote coastal populations: A systematic and meta-analytic review (Aloysius Siriwardena, University of Lincoln)
Chair: Lorna Gibson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alan Watkins, Nicki Walsh
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR160452 Integrating Mental Capacity in Routine symptom monitoring systems using Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) - PRO-Capacity - a mixed methods and implementation study (Ameeta Retzer, University of Birmingham)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Laura Bojke, Judith Smith, Deb Bick, Lorna Gibson, Gareth Hooper
Decision: Decline
NIHR160363 EMbedding Sensory Assessments in Memory Clinics (EMSAMs) (Bernadette McGuinness, The Queen's University of Belfast)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Jenni Burton
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR159868 The acceptability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Enhanced Patient Observation in reducing the risk of self-harm and suicide on psychiatric wards (Alexandra Pitman, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR160299 Stepped wedge TRial of App with evidence based guidelines for preveNtion and management of post-operative Delirium (STRAND) (Helen Snooks, Swansea University)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Lorna Gibson, Alan Watkins, Judith Smith, Gareth Hooper
Decision: Decline
NIHR159746 Enhanced smoking cessation service for people with severe mental illness: process evaluation of the North East and North Cumbria early implementer site testing the primary care model pathway (Angela Rodrigues, Northumbria University)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Enya Daynes, Lorna Gibson
Decision: Decline
NIHR159134 Improving the system within which families access childhood and adolescent vaccination programmes: A co-design study incorporating evidence synthesis, systems thinking, and assessment of costs (Harriet Fisher, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board)
Chair: Parveen Ali
Declared a conflict and left the room: Nicki Walsh, Judith Smith, Kathy Rowan, Annette Boaz
Decision: Decline
NIHR159486 Improving maternity and neonatal care in England: a formative evaluation of the implementation of the Core Competency Framework to improve multi-professional practice (Rebecca Whybrow, King's College London)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Annette Boaz
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR160995 Creating patient-centred infrastructures to enhance informed consent and improve patient experience of radiotherapy for gynaecological cancers (Lisa Ashmore, Lancaster University)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR161150 Optimising delivery of integrated palliative care and heart failure services: A realist evaluation (PalliatHeartSynthesis II) (Tracey McConnell, The Queen's University of Belfast)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alan Smith
Decision: Shortlist
NIHR161055 The evaluation of a parent animation for the promotion of parent involvement in the management of their child’s pain in hospital (Joan Simons, The Open University)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Decline
23/17 Delivering a Sustainable Health and Care System - invitation only
NIHR158518 Understanding carbon impact of virtual wards: framework development and mixed method evaluation of stakeholder priorities, service models, and costs (Jenny Shand, UCL Partners)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith
Decision: Shortlist
Post-meeting decision made by Programme Director due to the split vote.
23/46 NIHR NICE Rolling Call
NIHR160325 The ASK Trial: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of a patient and family outreach service to improve AccesS to living-donor Kidney transplantation (Pippa Bailey, University of Bristol)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Shortlist
Day 2 - Thursday 21 September 2023
Venue
- Danubius Hotel, 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)
- Alan Watkins
- Alexis Foster
- Andrew Price
- Angela Ruddock (Public Committee Member)
- Annette Boaz
- Clarissa Giebel
- Duncan Stewart
- Enya Daynes (Committee Member Development Scheme)
- Greg Irving
- Jenni Burton
- Laura Bojke
- Linda Parton (Public Committee Member)
- Lorna Gibson (Deputy Chair)
- Mark Cadman (Public Committee Member)
- Nicola Walsh
- Parveen Ali (left at 12:00)
- Rachel Meacock
- Rebecca Harris (left at 12:00)
Secretariat
- Tara Lamont
- Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
- Suzy Hopper
- Irene Moreno Milan
- Abi Chalk
Apologies
- Debra Bick
- Elizabeth Atlan
- Fiona Verity
- Godfred Boahen
- Lisa Hinton
Observers
- Dawn Edge, Mental Health & Inclusivity, The University of Manchester
- Josie Jackson, Welsh DA Representative
- Christine Rowland, Lecturer in Psychology & Research Fellow, The University of Manchester
- Kamini Shah, Diabetes UK
Quoracy information
- Voting members: 24 (Quoracy = 66% = 16)
- Voting members present on Day Two: 19 (79%)
Stage 2 applications
22/143 Improving Services for People Living with Diabetes
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: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Deb Bick, Laura Bojke, Linda Parton, Judith Smith, Nicki Walsh
Decision: Due to the spilt vote, a post-meeting decision was made by the Programme Director to Fund with Changes
22/16 Researcher-led
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, Jenni Burton, Alexis Foster, Alan Watkins, Parveen Ali
Decision: Fund with Changes
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: Deb Bick, Laura Bojke, Kathy Rowan, Lorna Gibson, Andrew Price
Decision: Fund with Changes
NIHR157622 Organisation of eye care services for adults and children following acquired brain injury and for children with cerebral visual impairment (Lauren Hepworth, University of Liverpool)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Laura Bojke, Mark Cadman, Clarissa Giebel, Rebecca Harris, Greg Irving
Decision: Fund with Changes
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, Andrew Price
Decision: Not Fund
NIHR158488 B-SIMPL: Better Sharing of Information by Maternity services PostnataLly, a mixed methods study (Beck Taylor, University of Warwick)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Deb Bick, Judith Smith
Decision: Not Fund
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: Lorna Gibson
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kathy Rowan, Judith Smith, Nicki Walsh, Annette Boaz, Andrew Price
Decision: The Programme Director reviewed the application and Committee feedback in light of the borderline score, and a post-meeting decision to Fund With Changes was made.
This reflected the positive external reviews received, good responses to external review made by the applicant team, recommendations to fund from the Designated Committee Members, and the importance of the research topic aligned to an NIHR themed call on Compound Pressures.
22/562 Children and Young People's Mental Health
NIHR157415 Optimising the deLIvery of Mental health support to adolescents in care vIa low-inTensity LifE Story work: a realist evaluation with co-deSign and feasibility trial [LIMITLESS 2] (Simon Hammond, University of East Anglia)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Andrew Price
Decision: Fund with Changes
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: Christine Rowland, Rachel Meacock, Alan Watkins, Dawn Edge
Decision: Not Fund
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, Christine Rowland, Dawn Edge, Laura Bojke
Decision: Fund with Changes
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: Rachel Meacock, Christine Rowland, Andrew Price, Dawn Edge
Decision: Fund with Changes
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: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith
Decision: Fund with Changes
22/132 Optimal Models for Reablement Services
NIHR157899 Selecting reablement models that best support 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: Fund with Changes
22/563 Evaluating New Models of Care for Children and Young People with Excess Weight and Related Complications
NIHR158453 ENHANCE - Evaluating the NHs englANd Complications from Excess weight clinics for children and young people (Catherine Homer, Sheffield Hallam University)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Laura Bojke, Alexis Foster
Decision: Fund with Changes
23/75 Straight to Stage 2 September 2023
NIHR160257 How, for whom, and in what circumstances does Responsive Management – a protocolised yet flexible form of conservative management for kidney failure – influence palliative outcomes? Adding a Realist Evaluation to the Prepare for Kidney Care randomised controlled trial to inform service design (Barnaby Hole, University of Bristol)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Nicki Walsh, Alan Smith, Andrew Price
Decision: Not Fund