Minutes of the Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme South East and Central Regional Advisory Committee meeting to discuss stage 2 applications to competition 42 and stage 1 applications to competition 43.
Date and location
Wednesday 20 January 2021 Virtual Meeting
In attendance
Funding committee
Professor Carrie Llewellyn (Chair)
Mrs Wendy Blunden
Professor Stephen Bremner
Ms Nadia Brookes
Professor Michael Calnan
Professor Simon Coulton
Dr Mark Hayward
Dr Christina Jones
Miss Alison Provins
Dr James Sheppard
Professor Ian Swaine
Mrs Ann-Marie Towers
Mr David Turner
Dr Dawn-Marie Walker
Dr Peter Worsley
Mr Keith Wyncoll
Secretariat
Dr Laura Tornatore (NIHR CCF)
Dr Ianina Conte (NIHR CCF)
Ms Thembela Huna (NIHR CCF)
Ms Lily Tomlinson (NIHR CCF)
Mr Curtis Dixon (NIHR CCF)
Observers
Dr Ferhana Hashem (RDS - SE)
Dr Isabel Reading (RDS - SC)
Dr Sophie Hyndman (RDS- SC)
Apologies
Apologies were received from Professor Daniel Freeman, Professor Najib M Rahman and Ms Rosemary Greenwood.
Stage 2 applications considered
1.1 NIHR202283: Supporting people to make decisions that are right for them: Developing a patient-directed knowledge tool to support shared decision-making for deprescribing in palliative care
Conflicts: Mrs Ann-Marie Towers
Outcome: Conditional support
1.2 NIHR202241: PREMIER-P: a study to develop, validate, implement and evaluate a tool to measure the perioperative experience of NHS patients
Conflicts: Dr Peter Worsley
Outcome: Reject
1.3 NIHR202281: Classification and outcomes of perinatal anxiety
Conflicts: Professor Simon Coulton and Dr Dawn-Marie Walker
Outcome: Reject
1.4 NIHR202859: Depression Remission Clinical Trial: Feasibility study on the Counterweight-Plus® weight management programme for patients with depression and obesity (DeReCT-F)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
1.5 NIHR202272: Comparison of Lower Airway Sampling Strategies In Children with PBB (CLASSIC PBB)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional support
Stage 1 applications considered
2.1 NIHR202784: GUISE (GUIdance and SElf-management): A feasibility study to investigate, before going to full trial, the acceptability of an intervention designed to empower patients with the knowledge and understanding of the causes, consequences and prevention of metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) to support lifestyle change
Conflicts: Professor Ian Swaine, Mr David Turner, Dr Dawn-Marie Walker and Dr Peter Worsley
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
2.2 NIHR202733: Maximising Mobility and Strength Training (MMOST) Feasibility Trial
Conflicts: Dr James Sheppard
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
2.3 NIHR202771: Can we identify and characterise different subgroups of patients with osteoarthritis? A quantitative study
Conflicts: Dr James Sheppard
Outcome: Reject
2.4 NIHR202746: Nutrition and Exercise Treatment to improve musculoskeletal health in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis: A feasibility study. (NExT)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
2.5 NIHR202839: Providing tailored interventions for anxiety and psychosis symptoms in people with early psychosis and autistic traits by Aligning Dimensions of Interoceptive Experiences: The ADIEp in Psychosis multi-site feasibility RCT
Conflicts: Professor Stephen Bremner, Professor Simon Coulton, Dr Mark Hayward and Dr Christina Jones
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
2.6 NIHR202826: Improving testing for cardiometabolic diseases in women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus: an exemplar study on implementation and evaluation of a novel data driven randomised clinical trial platform in primary care
Conflicts: Dr James Sheppard
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
2.7 NIHR202795: CaRES-B': Cancer/Cirrhosis Risk in an English cohort: Scoring Systems for hepatitis B
Conflicts: Dr James Sheppard and Professor Ian Swaine
Outcome: Reject
2.8 NIHR202821: Improving vision assessments in patients with inherited eye disease
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
2.9 NIHR202770: E-Cigarettes as an Alternative to Smoking for people living with HIV (EC-ASH): A mixed methods feasibility study
Conflicts: Professor Carrie Llewellyn, Professor Stephen Bremner and Professor Simon Coulton. Dr Mark Hayward and Dr James Sheppard co-chaired the discussion
Outcome: Invite to Stage 2
2.10 NIHR202762: The use of ice packs in labour: a randomised, controlled feasibility study
Conflicts: Professor Simon Coulton
Outcome: Reject
2.11 NIHR202814: Development and feasibility of using a clinical risk prediction tool, incorporating artificial intelligence, to improve the triage of patients referred to rheumatology services with suspected inflammatory arthritis.
Conflicts: Mr David Turner
Outcome: Reject
Outcomes tables
Funding Committees score applications on a range of 1-10. These tables display the number of applications awarded each score in the committee meeting. The tables exclude applications that were rejected during the scrutiny and triage processes, and no ranking within columns should be inferred.
RfPB will fund applications that score in the range of 6-10, although a score of 6-10 does not guarantee funding. In exceptional circumstances and with approval from the Programme Director, applications may be invited/funded that fall below the fundable range (scoring 1-5).
Competition 42 stage 1
Score | Range | Number of applications |
---|---|---|
10 | Fundable | 0 |
9 | Fundable | 0 |
8 | Fundable | 0 |
7 | Fundable | 3 |
6 | Fundable | 4 |
5 | Rejected | 3 |
4 | Rejected | 1 |
3 | Rejected | 0 |
2 | Rejected | 0 |
1 | Rejected | 0 |
Competition 42 stage 2
Score | Range | Number of applications |
---|---|---|
10 | Fundable | 0 |
9 | Fundable | 0 |
8 | Fundable | 2 |
7 | Fundable | 0 |
6 | Fundable | 0 |
5 | Rejected | 2 |
4 | Rejected | 1 |
3 | Rejected | 0 |
2 | Rejected | 0 |
1 | Rejected | 0 |