Meeting
HTA Programme Oversight Committee
Date and time
Friday 11 February 2022, from 10.00am to 1.45pm
Place
Virtual meeting
Present
Professor Andrew Farmer (Chair)
Professor Julia Brown
Professor Anthony de-Soyza
Professor Marian Knight
Dr Kamal Mahtani
Mr Richard Parnell
Professor Olivia Wu
NETSCC, HTA
Mrs Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
Dr Lisa Douet
Dr Rob Gray
Ms Sharon Gray
Ms Tess Green
Dr Amy Halls
Dr Neil Henderson
Dr Jason Horsley
Dr Claire Kidgell
Miss Elizabeth Lemm
Mrs Carol Ozuak
Ms Elke Streit
Mrs Agnieszka Terry
Observers
Mr Michael Bowdery
Dr Alan McNair
Research priority decisions
The HTA Programme Oversight Committee considered a total of 16 detailed briefing papers (research briefs). The outcomes are listed below:
Prioritisation Committee: Integrated community health and social care
| Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Advertise 22/36* | Primary research | Microsuction compared with irrigation to remove earwax |
| Advertise 22/27 | Primary research | Antipsychotics for the treatment of borderline personality disorder |
| Advertise 22/28 | Primary research | Management of antipsychotic-induced sexual dysfunction |
| Return to committee | Primary research | Chronic kidney disease education for patients, families and carers |
| Advertise 22/31 | Primary research | Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist therapy for people with severe mental illness living with overweight or obesity |
| Advertise 22/37 | Evidence synthesis | Non-pharmacological interventions for fatigue management in adults with long-term health conditions |
Prioritisation Committee: Hospital based care
| Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Return to committee | Primary research | Surgical management of successfully reduced incarcerated inguinal hernia in children |
| Delayed advert | Primary research | Benefits and harms of maintenance therapy for refractory acne vulgaris or previous relapses by reduced dose isotretinoin regimens |
| Advertise 22/29 | Primary research | Pseudomonas aeruginosa eradication treatment in bronchiectasis |
| Return to committee | Primary research | Positive airway pressure therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-obstructive sleep apnoea overlap syndrome |
| Advertise 22/30 | Primary research | Post-operative pain in patients undergoing spinal surgery |
| Return to committee | Primary research | Comprehensive geriatric assessment for frail older heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction |
| Advertise 22/32 | Primary research | Biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in pregnancy |
| Advertise 22/33 | Primary research | Botulinum toxin in the management of chronic masticatory myofascial pain |
| Advertise 22/34 | Primary research | Surgical and non-surgical management of basal thumb arthritis |
| Advertise 22/35 | Primary research | Thromboprophylaxis in lower limb immobilisation |
* This research priority is being re-advertised
Future HTA Programme Oversight Committee 2022 meetings: 2022 dates
• 17 June 2022
• 21 October 2022