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HSDR Funding Committee Public Minutes November 2023

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Published: 25 January 2024

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Day One - Wednesday 22 November 2023

Venue

  • virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams 

Present Members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Kam Bhui (Deputy Chair)
  • Kath Checkland (Deputy Chair)
  • Adine Adonis
  • Zenab Barry (Public Committee Member)
  • Lucy Beishon (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS))
  • Edmund Brooks (Public Committee Member)
  • Dawn Dowding
  • Katie Featherstone
  • Sebastian Hinde
  • Rashmi Kumar (Public Committee Member)
  • Joanne McPeake
  • Graham Martin
  • Michael Molete (Public Committee Member)
  • Alicia O’Cathain
  • Rachel Spencer
  • Alan Smith (Public Committee Member – Seacole Committee member)
  • Alan Watkins
  • Andrea Williamson
  • Ge Yu

Secretariat

  • Suzy Hopper
  • Tara Lamont
  • Claire Fenton
  • Maria Oosterwijk

Apologies

  • Axel Kaehne
  • Gerald McKenna
  • Judith Smith (Deputy Programme Director)
  • Yize Wan (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS)) 
  • Beatriz Goulao 

Observers

  • Janet Diffin 
  • Dave Abbott 
  • Cini Bhanu 
  • Sittana Abdelmagid 
  • Edward Aldus 
  • Simon Bailey 
  • Patrick Burch 
  • Catriona Connell 
  • John Ford 
  • Lorna Fraser
  • Bolanle Kayode 
  • Roman Kislov 
  • Dimitrios Koutoukidis 
  • Jason Madan 
  • Karen Mattick 
  • Jamie Miles 
  • Ruben Mujica Mota 
  • Rob Newton 
  • Grant Nicholson 
  • Rupert Payne 
  • Michaela Rogers 
  • Katie Sheehan 
  • Greig Taylor 
  • Linda Tinkler 
  • Sarah Tonkin-Crine 
  • Michael Twigg 
  • Mara Violato 
  • Fiona Warren 
  • Mariam Walting
  • Lucy Webb 
  • Brad Willingham 

Quoracy Information

  • Voting members: 22 (Quoracy = 15, 66%)
  • Voting members present on Day One: 19 (86%)

Stage One Applications

23/10 HSDR Researcher-led call (Feb - Sept 2023)

NIHR161818 Investigating the conditions in which women GPs thrive in General Practice: What works, for whom, how and in what circumstances? (Ruth Abrams, University of Surrey)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Cini Bhanu 
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR160668 Using patient-led appointment scheduling to improve cost-effectiveness, access, and patient satisfaction in NHS Talking Therapies services: A feasibility study (Robert Griffiths, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui, Rachel Spencer, Katherine Checkland, Dawn Dowding
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR161457 Understanding why junior doctors leave the NHS and what can be done to retain them: A realist synthesis (Anna Melvin, University of Exeter)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Sebastian Hinde, Andrea Williamson, Graham Martin, Edmund Brooks, John Ford, Karen Mattick, Rupert Payne, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Fiona Warren
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR161511 Improving person-centred care planning and delivery for people with dementia living in care homes using the Person-centred Observation and Reflection Tool (PORT): an acceptability and feasibility study and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (Claire Surr, Leeds Beckett University)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Katie Featherstone, Katherine Checkland, Alicia O'Cathain, Simon Bailey, Roman Kislov
Decision: Decline

NIHR160821 Reducing Avoidable Admissions in Acute Hospital Care: The role and effectiveness of Same Day Emergency Care Services. (Richard Jacques, The University of Sheffield)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith, Sebastian Hinde, Alan Watkins, Rachel Spencer, Alicia O'Cathain, Graham Martin, Jason Madan, Jamie Miles
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR159664 Delivering care via voice assistants to support adults with social care needs: what works, for whom and in what circumstances? (Joanna Thorn, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Edmund Brooks, Rupert Payne, Katie Sheehan, David Abbott
Decision: Decline

NIHR161438 STROKE-TWIN: Optimising flow and patient outcomes in the emergency stroke pathway using Stroke System Digital Twins (Michael Allen, University of Exeter)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Ge Yu, Edmund Brooks, Rupert Payne, Fiona Warren, Karen Mattick
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR162680 Designing and evaluating delivery of a Fire and Rescue Service-led intervention to support detection and signposting for anxiety and depression in community-dwelling older adults: a multiple case study approach (Tom Kingstone, Keele University)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui, Sebastian Hinde, Lorna Fraser, Rupert Payne
Decision: Decline

NIHR161439 Family Interventions iN Dementia Mental health Environments (FIND ME) (Emma Wolverson, University of Hull)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Katie Featherstone, Kathy Rowan
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR162398 Rationalising enhanced supervision for falls prevention in acute hospitals: development of a tool to support decision making (Rebecca Randell, University of Bradford)
Chair: Kam Bhui
Declared a conflict and left the room: Dawn Dowding, Roman Kislov, Ruben Mujica Mota, Katie Sheehan, Michael Twigg,
Decision: Decline

NIHR161305 Revealing Effective Approaches for Psychological Support (REAPS): best practice guidance for mental health support provision in adult rheumatology. (Emma Dures, UWE Bristol)
Chair: Kam Bhui
Declared a conflict and left the room: Katie Sheehan
Decision: Decline

NIHR162599 Implementing Models of Care for Children with Medical Complexity on Acute Inpatient Wards: What works, for whom, under what circumstances and why? (Emma Popejoy, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith, Linda Tinkler
Decision: Decline

NIHR161336 Understanding inequalities in cancer diagnostic outcomes for people with Learning Disabilities (CanLearn) (Luke Mounce, NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui, Simon Bailey, John Ford, Karen Mattick, Fiona Warren
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR162309 A realist evaluation to explore the impact of embedding a digital musculoskeletal self-management intervention across primary care: what works for whom, how, and why? (Alice Berry, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board)
Chair: None
Declared a conflict and did not score: Edmund Brooks
Decision: Decline

23/47 Adult Social Care Needs Assessment

NIHR159254 Assessment and care planning for older adults in England and Wales (ASSESS) (Stacey Rand, University of Kent)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Katherine Checkland, Dawn Dowding, Sebastian Hinde, Katie Featherstone, Alicia O'Cathain, Simon Bailey, Roman Kislov, David Abbott
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR159830 Exploring and addressing inequities in access, processes, and experiences of Social Care Needs Assessments for Dementia and Caregivers (Clarissa Giebel, University of Liverpool)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Dawn Dowding
Decision: Shortlist

23/67 Palliative and End of Life Care (HSDR Programme)

NIHR162177 Equitable Palliative care In the Community through Primary Care (EPIC-PC): a realist study to propose a new integrated neighbourhood team approach to palliative and end of life care. (Sarah Mitchell, University of Leeds)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Judith Smith, Sebastian Hinde, Alicia O'Cathain, Ge Yu, Rashmi Kumar, John Ford, Ruben Mujica Mota
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR161360 DAMPen-D II: Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management, and Prevention of Delirium in Palliative Care Units: a Cluster Randomised-Controlled Trial, Economic Analysis and Process Evaluation (Mark Pearson, University of Hull)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Sebastian Hinde, Alicia O'Cathain, Axel Kaehne, Edmund Brooks, Rashmi Kumar, Alan Smith, Karen Mattick, Jamie Miles
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR161089 Enhancing ambulance service ability to respond to palliative care calls (Nancy Preston, Lancaster University)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Decline

NIHR160727 Empowering better palliative and end of life care for people severely affected by dementia requiring unplanned mental health admission: EmpowereD (Clare Ellis-Smith, King's College London)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Rashmi Kumar, Adine Adonis, Katie Featherstone, Katie Sheehan
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR160875 Supporting family carers of people with dementia through to end of life: Implementing a decision aid (Nathan Davies, University College London)
Chair: Kam Bhui
Declared a conflict and left the room: Katherine Checkland, Adine Adonis, John Ford, Cini Bhanu
Decision: Decline

NIHR161331 Intervention to optiMise Palliative caRe for peOple with liVed Experience of homelessness (IMPROVE) (Briony Hudson, University College London)
Chair: Kam Bhui
Declared a conflict and left the room: Edmund Brooks, Sebastian Hinde
Decision: Shortlist

NIHR161982 Shared treatment decision-making for ageing adults with locally advanced Head and Neck Cancer (S-AGE) (Mary Cherry, University of Liverpool)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Ge Yu, Axel Kaehne
Decision: Shortlist

Day Two - Thursday 23 November 2023

Venue

  • virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams 

Present Members

  • Kathy Rowan (Programme Director)
  • Judith Smith (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))
  • Edmund Brooks (Public Committee Member)
  • Dawn Dowding
  • Katie Featherstone
  • Sebastian Hinde
  • Rashmi Kumar (Public Committee Member)
  • Joanne McPeake
  • Graham Martin
  • Michael Molete (Public Committee Member)
  • Alicia O’Cathain
  • Rachel Spencer
  • Alan Watkins
  • Andrea Williamson
  • Ge Yu

Secretariat

  • Suzy Hopper
  • Tara Lamont
  • Irene Moreno Milan
  • Maria Oosterwijk

Apologies

  • Axel Kaehne
  • Gerald McKenna
  • Yize Wan (Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS))
  • Beatriz Goulao 

Observers

  • Cat Chatfield
  • Bethan Copsey 
  • Artemis Igoumenou 
  • Kate Lippiett 
  • Fliss Murtagh 
  • Yin Zhou 
  • Janet Diffin 
  • Sittana Abdelmagid 
  • Edward Aldus 
  • Simon Bailey 
  • Catriona Connell 
  • Lorna Fraser 
  • Bolanle Kayode 
  • Roman Kislov 
  • Dimitrios Koutoukidis 
  • Jamie Miles 
  • Ruben Mujica Mota 
  • Grant Nicholson 
  • Rupert Payne 
  • Linda Tinkler 
  • Sarah Tonkin-Crine 
  • Mara Violato 
  • Fiona Warren 
  • Lucy Webb 

Quoracy Information

  • Voting members: 22 (Quoracy = 66% = 14)
  • Voting members present on Day Two: 18 (81%)

Stage Two Applications

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

NIHR159967 STALLED: What works to improve SafeTy, pAtient experience, outcomes and costs related to deLayed ambulance handovers at Emergency Departments? A whole systems approach (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, Rashmi Kumar, Jamie Miles
Decision: Fund With Changes

NIHR158681 Building an evidence base for the use of ADvice and GuidancE Referrals at the primary-secondary care interface (BADGER) – a multistage mixed-methods study (Claire Burton, Keele University)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kath Checkland, Alicia O'Cathain, Sittana Abdelmagid, Kate Lippiett
Decision: Fund With Changes

NIHR159815 Improving Patient Outcomes with Discharge Decision Support (Rachel Denholm, University of Bristol)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Not Fund

22/117 Stage Two - resubmission

NIHR155323 Increasing engagement and improving patient experience of cervical screening in primary care: Implementing the left lateral test position. A realist evaluation and implementation study. (Nicola Walsh, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Edmund Brooks
Decision: Fund With Changes

23/127 Straight to Stage Two – Fast track

NIHR161768 A mixed methods evaluation of the long-term equity impact and cost effectiveness of the NHS Low Calorie Diet programme (now the NHS Type 2 Diabetes Pathway to Remission): Re:Mission Re:Visited (Louisa Ells, Leeds Beckett University)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O’Cathain, Bethan Copsey, Ruben Mujica Mota
Decision: Not Fund

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: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Graham Martin, Andrea Williamson, Sebastian Hinde, Kam Bhui, Dimitrios Koutoukidis, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Fiona Warren
Decision: Not Fund

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

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: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui, Rashmi Kumar, Lorna Fraser
Decision: Not Fund

NIHR159019 HOPSCOTCH Helping Optimise Primary Care Support During Transition From Children’s Hospice Care (Lucy Ziegler, University of Leeds)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O’Cathain, Sebastian Hinde, Rashmi Kumar, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Fliss Murtagh, Ruben Mujica Mota, Lorna Fraser, Bethan Copsey
Decision: Fund With Changes

NIHR158053 Understanding how to improve palliative care when people are living with severe mental illness: a mixed methods study (Maddy French & Sarah Yardley, Lancaster University)
Chair: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room:  Kam Bhui, Judith Smith, Lorna Fraser, Artemis Igoumenou, Fliss Murtagh
Decision: Not Fund

NIHR159160 Developing effective service models for Adult Palliative and end of life care for People with a Learning disability (DAPPLE) (Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, Kingston University)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: None
Decision: Fund With Changes

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, Simon Bailey, Kate Lippiett
Decision: Fund With Changes

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: Kathy Rowan
Declared a conflict and left the room: Rashmi Kumar, Alan Watkins, Jamie Miles, Rupert Payne 
Decision: Not fund

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, Sebastian Hinde, Dimitrios Koutoukidis, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Fiona Warren
Decision: Fund With Changes

NIHR158933 MND Together: Improving communication and coordination of Motor Neuron Disease care (Liam Knox, The University of Sheffield)
Chair: Judith Smith
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O'Cathain, Bethan Copsey, Jamie Miles
Decision: Not Fund

NIHR158715 Delivering Effective Non-Invasive ventilation in Motor neuron disease using intensive remote support (DENIM) (Esther Hobson, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Chair: Kam Bhui
Declared a conflict and left the room: Alicia O'Cathain, Judith Smith, Kathy Rowan, Kate Lippiett, Jamie Miles
Decision: Fund With Changes

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

NIHR158265 An evaluation of Care (EduCatIon) 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: Kam Bhui, Alan Watkins, Judith Smith
Decision: Fund With Changes

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: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui, Ge Yu, Artemis Igoumenou
Decision: Fund With Changes

NIHR159849 My meeting, my care: Experiences, Processes and Impact of Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews (Louisa Rhodes, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust)
Chair: Kath Checkland
Declared a conflict and left the room: Kam Bhui
Decision: Not Fund