Minutes of the Programme Development Grants (PDG) programme meeting for Competition 37
Date and Location
28 November 2023 via online video meeting
In attendance
Committee
Professor Rebecca Kearney (Chair)
Professor Richard G Watt (Co-Chair)
Professor Anthony Avery
Dr Nathan Davies
Reverend Stephen Habgood
Professor Carmel Hughes
Professor Belinda Lennox
Professor Gregory Lip
Professor Richard Martin
Professor Catriona McDaid
Professor Gavin Murphy
Professor Kate O’Donnell
Mr John Pemberton
Professor Mari Carmen Portillo
Mrs Angela Ruddock
Ms Mavis Wenham
Programme Director
Professor Marian Knight
Secretariat
Mr Raj Flora (NIHR)
Ms Andrea Yanez-Cunningham (NIHR)
Ms Sarah Thomspon (NIHR)
Mr Curtis Dixon (NIHR)
Mr Rahul Malde (NIHR)
Ms Sana Bestwn (NIHR)
Ms Erinn Beattie (NIHR)
Ms Rachel Wylie (NIHR)
Applications considered
NIHR206931: Development of an intervention to keep well during winter for people with Multiple Long Term Conditions (MLTC)
Lead Applicant: Dr Hajira Dambha-Miller
Conflicts: Professor Belinda Lennox, Professor Marian Knight and Ms Mavis Wenham
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206935: REdesign oF muLtimorbidity carE for aCute and chronic kidney disease paTients: patient engagement, preparatory data analysis, and addressing governance.
Lead Applicant: Professor Dorothea Nitsch
Conflicts: Professor Mari Carmen Portillo, Professor Gavin Murphy, Mrs Angela Ruddock and Professor Catriona McDaid
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206937: They only listen when it's too late: working towards an early intervention approach in Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Lead Applicant: Dr Heather Law
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206941: Developing a Partnership of Integrated Care Systems to Generate Evidence for Very Rapid Decarbonisation in the NHS
Lead Applicant: Professor P. John Clarkson
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206942: STA:RTUPP: Second Time Around: Re-irradiation Treatment Using Photons or Protons. A Programme Development Grant to support a future Programme Grant
Lead Applicant: Dr Louise Murray
Conflicts: Professor Catriona McDaid
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206945: Developing a rule-out test for neonatal sepsis to guide antibiotic de-escalation
Lead Applicant: Dr Abhishek Das
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206947: Knowledge Support to support clinicians to manage self-harm and preventing suicide in primary care
Lead Applicant: Professor Tjeerd van Staa
Conflicts: Mrs Angela Ruddock and Professor Anthony Avery
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206948: Preparing to develop and test an equitable weight management intervention to improve outcomes for seldom reached groups affected by breast cancer: FOR ALL
Lead Applicant: Dr Rebecca Beeken
Conflicts: Professor Richard Martin
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206951: Improving access to and quality of care for South Asians who experience psychosis and their families
Lead Applicant: Dr Laoise Renwick
Conflicts: Professor Belinda Lennox and Mrs Angela Ruddock
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206953: Unseen and Underserved – improving palliative and end of life care for older people Living in rural or remote areas across the UK
Lead Applicant: Professor Mari Lloyd-Williams
Conflicts: Dr Nathan Davies and Professor Anthony Avery
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206954: Preliminary research and preparation of outcomes related to pregnancy for developing an NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research application
Lead Applicant: Dr Ben Goldacre
Conflicts: Professor Belinda Lennox and Professor Marian Knight
Outcome: Conditional Support
Professor Richard G Watt assumed the chair
Professor Anthony Avery left the meeting
NIHR206944: Care Pathways for Early Psoriatic Arthritis
Lead Applicant: Professor Neil McHugh
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support
Professor Anthony Avery returned to the meeting
NIHR206932: Enhancing Inclusivity and Accessibility through Translation and Interpretation: Addressing Language Barriers in the Recovery after an Episode of Delirium (RecoverED) Project
Lead Applicant: Dr Shruti Raghuraman
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR206938: Using an ideal types approach to tailor an intervention focused on reducing sedentary behaviour after stroke
Lead Applicant: Dr Jessica Johansson (née Hall)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206939: Addressing health inequalities through translation - Exploring Urdu-language delivery of the DIAMONDS self-management intervention to people from South Asian communities who have severe mental illness and type 2 diabetes
Lead Applicant: Mrs Jennifer Brown
Conflicts: Professor Catriona McDaid and Professor Gavin Murphy
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206940: Understanding care pathways for people with common mental disorders including psychotic experiences (CMD-PE)
Lead Applicant: Professor Jesus Perez
Conflicts: Professor Belinda Lennox
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206943: Co-SPACES
Lead Applicant: Dr Emily Peckham
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206946: Health and education outcomes from adolescence to adulthood among young people with neurodisability in England
Lead Applicant: Dr Anna Zylbersztejn
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206949: Feasibility and practicability of low-burden contactless sleep tracking devices to measure objective sleep quality in sleep interventions in patients with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (SleepXacT)
Lead Applicant: Dr Alpar Lazar
Conflicts: Professor Anthony Avery
Outcome: Conditional Support
NIHR206952: AMICABLE-EXTENDED-SCOPE-3-F-M: Machine learning and a qualitative implementation study to support people at risk of self-harm and suicide in prisons.
Lead Applicant: Dr Amanda Perry
Conflicts: Professor Catriona McDaid
Outcome: Conditional Support