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HSDR Funding Committee Public Minutes July 2023

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Published: 11 September 2023

Version: 1.0 - September 2023

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Day 1 - Wednesday 26 July 2023

Venue

  • Danubius Hotel, Regents Park, 18 Lodge Road, St. John’s Wood, London, NW8 7JT.

Present members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Chair and Deputy Programme Director)
  • Kam Bhui (Deputy Chair)
  • Kath Checkland (Deputy Chair)
  • Adine Adonis
  • Zenab Barry (Public Committee Member)
  • Lucy Beishon (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Edmund Brooks (Public Committee Member)
  • Katie Featherstone
  • Beatriz Goulao
  • Sebastian Hinde
  • Axel Kaehne
  • Rashmi Kumar (Public Committee Member)
  • Joanne McPeake
  • Graham Martin
  • Michael Molete (Public Committee Member)
  • Alicia O’Cathain
  • Rachel Spencer
  • Alan Watkins
  • Andrea Williamson
  • Yize Wan (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)

Secretariat

  • Suzy Hopper
  • Tara Lamont
  • Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
  • Irene Moreno Milan
  • Maria Oosterwijk

Apologies

  • Dawn Dowding
  • Gerald McKenna
  • Ge Yu

Observers

  • Maria Hassard - Assistant Director for Application and Funding
  • Michael Bowdery - Welsh Devolved Administration Representative

Quoracy information

  • voting members: 22 (Quoracy = 66% = 15)
  • voting members present on day 1: 19 (86%)

Stage 1 applications

23/18 Reducing compound pressures on the NHS and social care (HSDR programme)

NIHR158681 Defining an evidence Base for the use of ADvice and GuidancE Referrals (BADGER) – a mixed methods study (Claire Burton, Keele University)

  • Chair: Kath Checkland
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O'Cathain
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR158719 Performing hand surgery outside of main operating theatres – The REPRIEVE study (Robert Hinchliffe, North Bristol NHS Trust)

  • Chair: Kath Checkland
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Kathy Rowan, Judith Smith
  • decision: decline

NIHR159473 Implementing and Normalising digital technology in Care Homes to reduce Excess Service use (INCHES): concurrent exploratory mixed-methods study (Daniel Hind, The University of Sheffield)

  • Chair: Kath Checkland
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Graham Martin, Alicia O'Cathain, Sebastian Hinde
  • decision: decline

NIHR159815 Improving Patient Outcomes with Discharge Decision Support (Rachel Denholm, University of Bristol)

  • Chair: Kath Checkland
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Edmund Brooks
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR159967 What works to improve patient flow, SafeTy, experience, outcomes and costs of ambuLances queuing and deLayed handovers at Emergency Departments (STALLED)? (Helen Snooks, Swansea University)

  • Chair: Kam Bhui
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Alan Watkins, Rachel Spencer, Alicia O'Cathain, Kath Checkland, Judith Smith 
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR160119 Protecting the Wellbeing of Health and Social Care Practitioners and Enhancing the Quality of Care through Empowered Compassionate Practice (ECP) Training: A Realist Research Study (Sharon Wheeler, Wrexham University)

  • Chair: none
  • declared a conflict and did not score: none
  • decision: decline

22/561 Palliative and End of Life Care (HSDR Programme)

NIHR158131 The Data Donor Study: improving palliative care by using routinely collected data to understand the patient journey. (Paul Taylor, The University of Sheffield)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O'Cathain, Sebastian Hinde, Rashmi Kumar, Andrea Williamson 
  • decision: decline

NIHR158746 Managing Crisis at the End-of-Life: A regional prospective cohort study investigating Integrated Care to manage crisis at the end of life. (Cara Bailey, University of Birmingham)

  • Chair: Kam Bhui
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Jo McPeake, Graham Martin, Rachel Spencer, Axel Kaehne, Judith Smith, 
  • decision: declined

NIHR159236 KEech End of life research Partnership NETwork (KEEP-NET-2): A community partnership approach to improving access to palliative and end-of-life care among minority ethnic communities across ‘institutionalised’ and ‘non-institutionalised’ settings. (Erica Cook, University of Bedfordshire)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR159019 HOPSCOTCH Helping Optimise Primary Care Support During Transition From Children’s Hospice Care (Lucy Ziegler, University of Leeds)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O'Cathain, Axel Kaehne, Sebastian Hinde, Rashmi Kumar
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR158053 Understanding how to improve palliative care when people are living with severe mental illness: a mixed methods study. (Maddy French, Lancaster University)

  • Chair: Kathy Rowan
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui, Judith Smith 
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR159160 Developing effective models for palliative and end of life care for adults with learning disabilities (Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, Kingston University)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: none
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR159266 IneQUIty in end of life care for children: Investigating experiences and families’ Needs after sudden and unexpecTEd deaTh in children and young people – the QUINTET study (Anne-Sophie Darlington, University of Southampton)

  • Chair: Kathy Rowan
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith 
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR159126 Mobilising a collaborative response to social welfare legal needs around end of life: a realist evaluation of interprofessional learning (Colette Hawkins, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

  • Chair: none
  • declared a conflict and did not score: none
  • decision: decline

Day 2 - Thursday 27 July 2023

Venue

  • Danubius Hotel, Regents Park, 18 Lodge Road, St. John’s Wood, London, NW8 7JT.

Present members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (Chair and Deputy Programme Director)
  • Kam Bhui (Deputy Chair)
  • Kath Checkland (Deputy Chair)
  • Adine Adonis
  • Zenab Barry (Public Committee Member)
  • Lucy Beishon (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)
  • Edmund Brooks (Public Committee Member)
  • Katie Featherstone
  • Beatriz Goulao
  • Sebastian Hinde
  • Axel Kaehne
  • Rashmi Kumar (Public Committee Member)
  • Joanne McPeake
  • Graham Martin
  • Michael Molete (Public Committee Member)
  • Alicia O’Cathain
  • Rachel Spencer
  • Alan Watkins
  • Andrea Williamson
  • Yize Wan (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) Participant)

Secretariat

  • Suzy Hopper
  • Tara Lamont
  • Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
  • Claire Fenton
  • Maria Oosterwijk

Apologies

  • Dawn Dowding
  • Gerald McKenna
  • Ge Yu

Observers

  • Maria Hassard - Assistant Director for Application and Funding
  • Michael Bowdery - Welsh Devolved Administration Representative
  • Beverly Shirkey - Senior Research Associate, RDS Advisor, University of Bristol

Quoracy information

  • voting members: 22 (Quoracy = 66% = 15)
  • voting members present on day 2: 19 (86%)

Stage 1 applications

22/561 Palliative and End of Life Care (HSDR Programme)

NIHR159371 Paramedic screening and referral to increase advance care planning in end of life care (PARASOL) (Kim Kirby, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Rashmi Kumar, Edmund Brooks, Alan Watkins
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR158258 Exploring the impact of volunteering on palliative and end-of-life care provision in in-patient acute hospitals: A mixed methods approach. (Catherine Walshe, Lancaster University)

  • Chair: Kathy Rowan
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Andrea Williamson, Judith Smith 
  • decision: decline

23/14 Motor Neurone Disease (HSDR Programme)

NIHR158608 Optimising care pathways in Motor Neurone Disease for family carers: A realist evaluation (Linda Birt, NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui, Graham Martin, Andrea Williamson, Axel Kaehne, Sebastian Hinde
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR158715 DENIM: Delivering Effective Non-Invasive ventilation in Motor neuron disease using a remote home monitoring and intensive goal-directed support programme: a multicentre, stepped wedge randomised controlled trial, process evaluation and economic evaluation (Esther Hobson, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O’Cathain
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR158933 MND Together: Improving communication and coordination of Motor Neuron Disease care using digital services (Liam Knox, The University of Sheffield)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O’Cathain 
  • decision: shortlist

23/8 Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews (C(E)TRs) for people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people

NIHR158265 An evaluation of Care (EuCatIon) and treatment reviews for people with Learning dIsabilities and Autistic people (CEciLiA) (Peter Langdon, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust)

  • Chair: Kath Checkland
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Axel Kaehne, Alan Watkins, Judith Smith
  • decision: shortlist

NIHR158490 Optimising community C(E)TRs through understanding the experience of people with intellectual disability and autistic people and investigating their impact on care (Rory Sheehan, King's College London)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui
  • decision: shortlist
  • post-meeting decision made by the Programme Director due to the split vote and high pre-score

NIHR159849 The ExPO study: Experiences, Processes and Outcomes of Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews (Louisa Rhodes, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust)

  • Chair: Judith Smith
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui
  • decision: shortlist

23/11 NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships Rolling Call

NIHR159791 The BETTER Project: Bringing Excellence To The Emergency Department: a Realist Evaluation of End of Life Care (Bee Wee, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

  • Chair: Kath Checkland
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Graham Martin, Andrea Williamson, Axel Kaehne, Kam Bhui, Edmund Brooks 
  • decision: shortlist

Stage 2 applications

22/134 HSDR Researcher-led

NIHR157212 An Evaluation of Secondary Mental Health Treatment Requirements (Louise Robinson, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust)

  • Chair: Kathy Rowan
  • declared a conflict and left the room: none
  • decision: Ffund with changes

NIHR157268 Increasing retention of healthcare staff from ethnic minority groups (I-CARE) (Manish Pareek, University of Leicester)

  • Chair: Kam Bhui
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Andrea Williamson, Lucy Beishon
  • decision: fund with changes

NIHR157616 Orthoptic stroke services: establishing services and evaluating service and patient outcomes: I-Service study (Fiona Rowe, University of Liverpool)

  • Chair: Kam Bhui
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Adine Adonis, Sebastian Hinde 
  • decision: not fund

NIHR156826 CARELINK Wales - Comprehensive Analysis of Risk factors and outcomes for vulnerable children through LINKed Welsh data (Natasha Kennedy, Swansea University)

  • Chair: Kathy Rowan
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Axel Kaehne, Alan Watkins, Kath Checkland 
  • decision: fund with changes

NIHR156922 TaILOR - trial of patient-initiated care leading to improved outcomes in rheumatology (Laura Coates, University of Oxford)

  • Chair: Kathy Rowan
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui 
  • decision: fund with changes
  • post-meeting decision made by the Programme Director to fund pending a further review of trial methodology from a senior triallist

NIHR157356 The impact of organisational and team strategies for workforce resilience in healthcare settings: An umbrella review (Dean Whybrow, Cardiff University)

  • Chair: Kathy Rowan
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Katie Featherstone 
  • decision: not fund

22/135 NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships Rolling Call

NIHR157443 Implementation of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment based perioperative medicine services to improve clinical outcomes for older patients undergoing elective and emergency surgery with cost effectiveness. [Short title; Perioperative medicine for Older People undergoing Surgery Scale Up (POPS-SUp)] (Jugdeep Dhesi, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust)

  • Chair: Kath Checkland
  • declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith, Graham Martin, Lucy Beishon, Yize Wan 
  • decision: fund with changes