Minutes of the Programme Development Grants (PDG) programme meeting for Competition 35
Date and Location
30 March 2023 via online video meeting
In attendance
Committee
Professor Kate Jolly (Chair)
Professor Catherine Hewitt (Supporting Chair)
Mr Philip Hurst
Professor Eileen Kaner
Professor Gregory Lip
Professor Gavin Murphy
Professor Catriona McDaid
Mrs Angela Ruddock
Ms Mavis Wenham
Programme Director
Professor Elaine Hay
Secretariat
Mr Raj Flora (NIHR)
Ms Sarah Thompson (NIHR)
Ms Andrea Yanez-Cummingham (NIHR)
Mr Curtis Dixon (NIHR)
Mr Chris Lambert (NIHR)
Applications considered
NIHR205656: Canine-assisted interventions as adjunctive treatment to improve mental health outcomes: extending methodological guidelines for robust intervention research and preparing the grounds for a definitive trial
Lead Applicant: Dr Elena Ratschen
Conflicts: Professor Catriona McDaid, Professor Eileen Kaner and Professor Catherine Hewitt
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR205664: KidnEy olDer persoN Assessment (EDNA) study development: understanding what matters to older people living with frailty and chronic kidney disease, their caregivers and healthcare professionals
Lead Applicant: Professor Helen Hurst
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR205665: Cystic Fibrosis screen positive, inconclusive diagnosis: Improving understanding of disease EVOlution to Lower uncertainty and preVent iatrogenic Effects of overmedicalisation (CF EVOLVE)
Lead Applicant: Dr Jane Chudleigh
Conflicts: Professor Eileen Kaner
Outcome: Reject
NIHR205670: England and Wales Digital Platform for Diabetes Eye Health: Development Work to Deliver Precision Care through Integrated Data and Advanced Analytics
Lead Applicant: Dr Philip Burgess
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR205671: Development of a prehabilitation intervention for people with lumbar spinal stenosis undergoing spinal surgery
Lead Applicant: Dr Lianne Wood
Conflicts: Professor Catriona McDaid
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR205672: Implementing and evaluating a co-designed, tailored intervention to support pressure ulcer prevention behaviours by older patients and their lay carers in community settings: preparing for inclusive and diverse research (CPrUP2)
Lead Applicant: Dr Jennifer Roddis
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR205674: A Pre-implementation Study to develop and test an Integrated Discharge Intervention (PreSIDInt study)
Lead Applicant: Dr Hamde Nazar
Conflicts: Professor Eileen Kaner
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR205677: Development of a programme to reduce burden and distress in parents and carers of children with of OCD
Lead Applicant: Dr Rebecca Pedley
Conflicts: Mrs Angela Ruddock, Professor Catherine Hewitt and Professor Eileen Kaner
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR205655: Prototype development and commercialisation strategy for COSI children's sleep app
Lead Applicant: Professor Deb Pal
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR205667: Reducing the impact of workplace trauma for all staff working on acute mental health wards
Lead Applicant: Professor Katherine Berry
Conflicts: Mrs Angela Ruddock
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR205669: Mechanisms of Change in Metacognitive Therapy for Depression and Anxiety in Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients
Lead Applicant: Professor Adrian Wells
Conflicts: Mrs Angela Ruddock
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR205675: LUSTRUM 2: co-production of digital health interventions to increase sex partner testing within contact tracing for sexually transmitted infections
Lead Applicant: Professor Claudia Estcourt
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR205678: Investigation of clinical outcomes associated with use of rapid molecular diagnostics to guide antimicrobial prescribing in HAP/VAP – an INHALE pre-implementation study
Lead Applicant: Dr Vanya Gant
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Coditional Support