Date 21 July 2020
Venue Held remotely via Microsoft Teams
Present members
Andrew Farmer (Co-Chair)
Elaine Hay (Co-Chair)
Peymane Adab
Lorna Aucott
Yvonne Birks
Julia Brown
Lucy Chappell
Mike Clark
Sandra Duggan
Fang Gao Smith
Kate Hunt
Martin Hunt
Kamlesh Khunti
Danny McAuley
John Norrie
Jane Noyes
Gavin Perkins
John Powell
Toby Prevost
Angela Ruddock
Jo Rycroft Malone
Paul Sibbons
Olivia Wu
Sally Wyke
Sue Ziebland
Secretariat
Vicky Taylor
Helen Payne
Jason Horsley
Becky Scott
Rachel Corbett
Tina Moody
Naomi Kerr
Raj Flora
Ruth Neubaur
Apologies
Brian Ferguson
Ken Stein
Matt Sutton
Fiona Verity
Observers
Michael Bowdery
Ursula Wells
Quoracy Information Voting members: 27 (Quoracy = 50% = 14)
Voting members present: 23 (85%)
Funding Committee Comments
NIHR 20/45 COVID-19 Recovery and Learning Research
NIHR132029 – Resilience and mental health of COVID-19 frontline health and social care workers: Evidence Reviews, learning froM OtheR health Emergencies (RECOVER-more) (Dr Alex Pollock)
Chair: Andrew Farmer
Declared a conflict and did not participate in the discussion: Lorna Aucott, Jane Noyes, John Norrie, Olivia Wu, Kate Hunt, Sally Wyke
Decision: Revise and Resubmit
NIHR132103 – The prevention and treatment of persisting olfactory dysfunction following COVID-19 infection; a suite of Cochrane living systematic reviews (Professor Martin Burton)
Chair: Elaine Hay
Declared a conflict and did not participate in the discussion: Jane Noyes, Andrew Farmer, Sue Ziebland, John Powell
Decision: Fund with Changes Programme: Evidence Synthesis
NIHR132030 – Effectiveness of a post discharge rehabilitation intervention after critical illness due to COVID-l9: an assessor blind randomised controlled trial with internal pilot (Dr Brenda O'Neill)
Chair: Andrew Farmer
Declared a conflict and did not participate in the discussion: Danny McAuley (left the meeting), Gavin Perkins (left the meeting), Kamlesh Khunti (left the meeting), Toby Prevost, Fang Gao Smith, Lucy Chappell
Decision: Declined
NIHR132046 – Rehabilitation Exercise and psycholoGical support After covid-19 InfectioN (REGAIN) (Dr Gordon McGregor)
Chair: Andrew Farmer
Declared a conflict and did not participate in the discussion: Danny McAuley (Not in the meeting), Jo Rycroft-Malone, Gavin Perkins (Not in the meeting), Fang Gao Smith
Decision: Fund with changes Programme: HTA
NIHR132144 – BuRn-out Across physiotherapists working in critical care during the COVID-19 pandEmic; PLUS the impact on physiotherapy services (BRAVE-PLUS) (Dr Bronwen Connolly)
Chair: Elaine Hay
Declared a conflict and did not participate in the discussion: Danny McAuley (Not in the meeting), Gavin Perkins (Not in the meeting)
Decision: Decline
NIHR132138 – Challenges of living with ONgoiNg sEquelae of Covid-19: EvaluaTing the delivery of self-management support at scale (CONNECT C-19) (Professor Fiona Jones)
Chair: Elaine Hay
Declared a conflict and did not participate in the discussion:Gavin Perkins
Decision: Decline
NIHR132119 – Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on Health and Social Care Staff through Moral Injury (Dr Paul Hanna)
Chair: Elaine Hay
Declared a conflict and did not participate in the discussion:No conflicts
Decision: Decline
NIHR132225 – Optimising Anticoagulant Treatment In Covid-19 (Dr Barbara Philips)
Chair: Andrew Farmer
Declared a conflict and did not participate in the discussion: No conflicts
Decision: Decline
Summary
A List applications
| Project Ref | Project Title | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| NIHR132029 Pollock | Resilience and mental health of COVID-19 frontline health and social care workers: Evidence Reviews, learning froM OtheR health Emergencies (RECOVER-more) | Resubmit |
| NIHR132103 Burton | The prevention and treatment of persisting olfactory dysfunction following COVID-19 infection; a suite of Cochrane living systematic reviews | Fund with changes ESP |
| NIHR132030 O’Neil | Effectiveness of a post discharge rehabilitation intervention after critical illness due to COVID-l9: an assessor blind randomised controlled trial with internal pilot | Decline |
| NIHR132046 McGregor | Rehabilitation Exercise and psycholoGical support After covid-19 InfectioN (REGAIN) | Fund with changes HT |
B List applications
| Project Ref | Project Title | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| NIHR132144 Connolly | BuRn-out Across physiotherapists working in critical care during the COVID-19 pandEmic; PLUS the impact on physiotherapy services (BRAVE-PLUS) | Decline |
| NIHR132138 Jones | Challenges of living with ONgoiNg sEquelae of Covid-19: EvaluaTing the delivery of self-management support at scale (CONNECT C-19) | Decline |
| NIHR132119 Hanna | Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on Health and Social Care Staff through Moral Injury | Decline |
| NIHR13225 Philips | Optimising Anticoagulant Treatment In Covid-19 | Decline |