Minutes of the Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) funding committee meeting to discuss applications to PGfAR Competition 29 Stage 1.
Date and location
Meeting held 09 May 2019 at ETC Venues, 6 Avonmouth St, London SE1 6NX.
In attendance
Committee Members
Professor Kate Jolly (Chair)
Professor Robbie Foy
Professor Jonathan Mant
Professor Tom Marshall
Professor George Peat
Professor Tracy Roberts
Dr Miriam Santer
Professor Richard Watt
Professor Chris Eccleston (via Teleconference)
Ms Debra Dulake
Programme Director
Professor Elaine Hay
Secretariat
Mr Rajinder Flora (NIHR CCF)
Mr Tom Hutchinson (NIHR CCF)
Dr Michelle Edye (NIHR CCF)
Miss Saima Siddiqui (NIHR CCF)
Observers
Dr Jane Fearnside (Research Advisor, NIHR Research Design Service, Yorkshire and The Humber)
Dr Anna Durrans (Research Programme Manager, Versus Arthritis UK)
Dr Rick Warner (NIHR CCF)
Applications considered
NIHR200866: Evaluating a Personalised Intervention for Chronic pain (EPIC)
Conflicts: Professor Robbie Foy
Outcome: Rejected
Professor Robbie Foy returned. Professor Chris Eccleston, Dr Anna Durrans and Ms Debra Dulake left the meeting.
NIHR200856: Improving Care For People With Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIS) In A Digital NHS.
Conflicts: Professors Tracy Roberts, Kate Jolly and Tom Marshall
Outcome: Shortlisted to stage 2
Professors Tracy Roberts, Kate Jolly and Tom Marshall remained outside the room.
NIHR200857: BC-HERO: Tackling Bladder Cancer HEteROgeneity
Conflicts: Professors Tracy Roberts, Kate Jolly and Tom Marshall
Outcome: Rejected
Professors Tracy Roberts, Kate Jolly and Tom Marshall returned.
NIHR200858: Identifying, managing and mitigating cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Shortlisted to stage 2
NIHR200859: Improving the success of complex technology-supported change projects in health and social care: development, refinement and empirical testing of the NASSS-CAT tool
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200860: SALLiE: Active Support for Adults with Learning disability: improving outcomes in Living Environments
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200862: Developing and testing the effectiveness of online treatment for pain in children with CFS/ME: Pain in Fatigue Treatment (PIFT)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200863: Taking DATA-Driven AcTions in generAl practice: an exemplar around optimising treatments and guidelines around antibiotic prescribing (DATA-DATA)
Conflicts: Professor Robbie Foy
Outcome: Shortlisted to stage 2
Professor Robbie Foy Returned.
NIHR200864: Rationalising AntiPsychotic treatment in adults with Intellectual Disabilities (RAPID)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Shortlisted to stage 2
NIHR200868: RESPOND study (Rescue for Emergency Surgery Patients Observed to uNdergo acute Deterioration)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Shortlisted to stage 2
NIHR200870: Metacognitive Therapy for Enhancing Outcomes in Resistant Depression (MeTEOR-D)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200871: CHROnic MIGraine prevention studies (CHROMIG)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Shortlisted to stage 2
NIHR200872: Blood Pressure Treatment in Multimorbidity
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200873: Improving health outcomes for children with eosinophilic systemic allergic diseases.
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Rejected
NIHR200874: CompreHensive geriAtRician-led MEdication Review (CHARMER)
Conflicts: Professor Robbie Foy
Outcome: Shortlisted to stage 2
Professor Robbie Foy remained outside the room and Professor Jonathan Mant left the meeting.
NIHR200865: Access to Transplantation and Transplant Outcome Measures in children (ATTOMic)
Conflicts: Professor Robbie Foy
Outcome: Shortlisted to stage 2
Professor Robbie Foy returned.
NIHR200867: Schools as a setting for the prevention of ill-health: a mixed-methods approach to design a framework for the implementation of school-based healthy lifestyle programmes
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Shortlisted to stage 2