Minutes of Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme East of England Regional Advisory Committee meeting to discuss applications to Competition 37 Stage 2.
Date and location
Meeting held Thursday 16 May 2019 at Kings Centre, 63-75 King Street, Norwich NR1 1PH.
In attendance
Funding committee members
Dr Stephen Barclay (Chair)
Dr Isabel Clare
Dr Robbie Duschinsky
Dr Rebecca Harmston
Professor Christina Jerosch-Herold
Dr Julia Jones
Dr Anne Killett
Professor Carl Philpott
Professor John Potter
Dr Wendi Qian
Dr Peter Richmond
Dr Murray Smith
Dr Ewen Speed
Mrs Hilary Stobart
Dr Juliet Usher-Smith
Dr Ceri Wilson
RfPB secretariat
Mr Simon Goodwin (NIHR CCF)
Mr Matthew Bolton (NIHR CCF)
Dr Ianina Conte (NIHR CCF)
Dr Julie Hedayioglu (Observer – NIHR RDS South East Coast)
Apologies
Apologies were received from Professor Diana Gorog, Lisa Irvine, Professor Susan Kirk, Dr Aris Perperoglou, Dr Peter Richmond.
Applications considered
NIHR200481: Preventing psychosis in young people at ultra-high-risk attending NHS mental health services: a feasibility study of a novel intervention target
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional support
NIHR200490: Safety of colchicine prophylaxis when initiating urate-lowering therapy for gout and prognostic factors for adverse events: an observational study in UK primary care using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional support
NIHR200495: Social Cognition Assessment and Rehabilitation for Families living with Brain Tumour (SCARF-BT) : A Feasibility Study
Conflicts: Dr Isabel Clare and Dr Wendi Qian
Outcome: Conditional support
NIHR200517: The role of Electronic Frailty Index in improving Outcomes for newly diagnosed CAncer patients undergoing systemic Chemotherapy treatment-EfFICACY study
Conflicts: Mrs Hilary Stobart
Outcome: Conditional support
NIHR200536: Identifying the facilitators and barriers to implementation of tumour biopsy in the diagnostic pathway for small renal masses
Conflicts: Dr Juliet Usher-Smith
Outcome: Conditional support
NIHR200539: DEfining diabetes: a Feasibility study exploring the use of INnovativE technologies to optimise the threshold for diagnosis (DEFINE)
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Reject
NIHR200594: A multi-centre prospective randomised ‘double-blind’ controlled study of endoscopic ultrasound-guided ‘early’ vs. ‘on-demand’ coeliac plexus block in patients with locally advanced inoperable and metastatic pancreatic cancer
Conflicts: Dr Rebecca Harmston, Dr Stephen Barclay and Dr Wendi Qian left the room. Professor Christina Jerosch-Herold assumed the Chair.
Outcome: Reject
NIHR200831: GARFIELD-AF in Primary Care - Optimising prediction of mortality, stroke, and major bleeding for patients with atrial fibrillation using routinely collected primary care electronic health records
Conflicts: None
Outcome: Conditional support