Meeting
HTA Programme Oversight Committee
Date and time
Friday 16 October 2020, 10.00am – 1.00pm
Place
Virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams
Present
Professor Andrew Farmer (Chair)
Professor Lucy Chappell
Professor Anthony de-Soyza
Professor Steve Goodacre
Dr Kamal Mahtani
Mr Richard Parnell
Ms Gail Thornton
NETSCC, HTA
Mrs Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
Dr Lisa Douet
Dr Amy Halls
Dr Neil Henderson
Dr Claire Kidgell
Dr Jemma Kwint
Mrs Carol Ozuak
Ms Elke Streit
Mrs Agnieszka Terry
Observers
Mr Michael Bowdery
Dr Alan McNair
Dr Julie McCarroll
Research priority decisions
The Prioritisation Group considered a total of 11 detailed briefing papers (research briefs) which had previously been prioritised by three Prioritisation Committees. The outcomes for the research briefs are listed below:
Prioritisation Committee: Integrated community health and social care
| Outcome/Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Advertise call no 20/130 | Primary research | Intensive Interaction for children and young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities |
| Advertise (delayed advert) | Primary research | Optimising treatment for hepatitis C |
| Advertise call no 20/132 | Primary research | Sexual health promotion for people with severe mental illness |
| Advertise call no 20/134 | Primary research | Psychological intervention for treatment resistant generalised anxiety disorder in older adults |
Prioritisation Committee: Hospital-based care
| Outcome/Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Advertise call no 20/127 | Primary research | Occupational advice initiated prior to planned surgery for lower limb joint replacement |
| Advertise call no 20/128 | Primary research | Routine measurement of gastric residual volume in paediatric critical care |
| Advertise call no 20/129 | Primary research | Routine measurement of gastric residual volume in neonatal critical care |
| Advertise call no 20/131 | Primary research | Corticosteroid induction regimens for children and young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis |
| Advertise call no 20/133 | Primary research | Pre-operative exclusive enteral nutrition for Crohn’s disease |
| Return to prioritisation committees | Primary research | Colpocleisis for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse in women |
Prioritisation Committee: Maternal, child and mental health care
| Outcome/Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Advertise call no 20/1261 | Primary research | Imaging in paediatric osteomyelitis |
1 This research priority is being re-advertised
Future HTA Programme Oversight Committee 2021 meetings:
- 12 February 2021
- 11 June 2021
- 15 October 2021