Meeting
HTA Programme Oversight Committee
Date and time
Friday 4 October 2019, 10.00am – 4.00pm
Place
The Duke and Duchess Rooms
Chandos House
2 Queen Anne Street
London W1G 9LQ
Present
Professor Hywel Williams (Chair)
Professor Andrew Bradbury
Professor Lucy Chappell
Professor Andrew Farmer
Professor Steve Goodacre
Mrs Alison Ledward
Dr Ira Madan
Dr Kamal Mahtani
Mrs Catherine White
NETSCC, HTA:
Mrs Anna Cutler
Mrs Steph Garfield-Birkbeck
Dr Nicholas Hicks
Dr Jemma Kwint
Mrs Carol Ozuak
Observers:
Mr Michael Bowdery
Research priority decisions
The Prioritisation Group considered a total of 18 detailed briefing papers (research briefs) which had previously been prioritised by three Topic Identification, Development and Evaluation (TIDE) panels, three Prioritisation Committees and the National Stakeholder Advisory Group. The outcomes for the research briefs are listed below:
Mental Health Panel
| Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Not prioritised | Primary research | Psychosocial intervention for internalised stigma to improve outcomes for people with schizophrenia |
| Return to POC | Primary research | Vagus nerve stimulation for highly treatment-resistant depression |
Primary Care Panel
| Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19/1311 | Primary research | Short-term use of benzodiazepines for the acute management of acute low back pain |
Women and Children’s Health Panel
| Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Return to prioritisation committee | Primary research | Hysteroscopic removal of retained placenta |
Prioritisation Committee: Integrated community health and social care
| Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Not prioritised | Primary research | Antioxidant supplements to slow AMD progression |
| Not prioritised | Primary research | Intranasal phototherapy for severe perennial allergic rhinitis |
| 19/125 | Primary research | Cardiac rehabilitation for stable angina |
| 19/128 | Primary research | Administration routes of steroids in the first-line treatment of idiopathic sensorineural hearing |
Prioritisation Committee: Hospital based care
| Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19/1201 | Primary research | Relapsing polymyalgia rheumatica |
| 19/124 | Primary research | Effectiveness of meniscal allograft transplantation |
| 19/126 | Primary research | Suspending proton pump inhibitors to reduce clostridium difficile infection |
| 19/129 | Primary research | Lumbar fusion for low back pain |
| 19/132 | Primary research | A clinical prediction rule for post-operative atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery |
Prioritisation Committee: Maternal, child and mental health care
| Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19/123 | Primary research | Oxybutynin for the treatment of vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause |
| 19/127 | Primary research | Surgery for endometrioma in women undergoing IVF |
| 19/130 | Broad call | Bipolar disorder |
National Stakeholder Advisory Group
| Call No | Research type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19/121 | Primary research | The clinical and cost effectiveness of pulse oximetry screening for hypoxaemia in newborn babies |
| 19/122 | Primary research | A cross sectional study and modelled evaluation of the performance of bowel cancer screening in England |
1 These research priorities are being re-advertised
Future HTA Programme Oversight Committee 2020 meetings: 2020 dates
• 14 February 2020
• 12 June 2020
• 16 October 2020