Date
Monday 10 March 2025
Time
10am to 1pm (3 hours)
Attendees
Co-Chairs:
Andrew George (AG) and Jan Speechley
Community Committee Members:
Alisha Aman (AA), Anne-Laure Donskoy (A-LD), Eleni Chambers (EC), Louise Vale (LV), Margaret Cheng (MC), Sandra Duggan (SD), Stephanie Ellis (SE),
HRA Staff:
Becky Purvis (BP), Ben Solley (BS), Kat Evans (KE) Louise Braley (LB), Rachel Hebb (RH), Teagan Allen (TA) Tamsin Destrube (TD), Steve Tebbutt (TB), Matt Balding (MB)
HRA Guest Presenters:
Matt Balding (MB) joining at 11:00 am (Paper 2a – 2024-25 Q3 Finance Report), Steve Tebbutt (ST) joining at 11:30 am (Paper 3 – Vexatious complaints policy and Paper 5 – Working with vulnerable people (safeguarding) policy)
Apologies:
Eve Hart (EH), Jonathan Fennelly-Barnwell (JF-B), Paul Mills (PM), Christine Vial (CV), Sarah-Jayne Ambler (S-JA), Simon Kolstoe (SK)
Agenda
Item 1
Welcome and apologies
For approval: Paper B - 08 November meeting minutes
Verbal updates:
- Achievements: 20 November HRA Board and Seminar
- Update on payments to HRA Community
- Update on handling of high profile research studies
- Plans for recruitment to Community Committee in 2025, including request for members to join recruitment working group
- See Paper C - For information - Community Committee member recruitment paper
- Upcoming changes to Committee co-chairs
Item led by: Andrew George (AG)
Time: 10:00am to 10:20am
Duration: 20 minutes
Item 2
Description: Update on progress developing the next HRA strategy and opportunity to comment on emerging content
For review and advice: Paper 1a and paper 1b – HRA Strategy – supporting slides
Item led by: Becky Purvis
Time: 10:20am to 10:50am
Duration: 30 minutes
Break
Time: 10:50am to 11:00am
Duration: 10 minutes
Item 3
Description: Optional session HRA Board strategic supporting papers
For review and advice: Paper 2a – 2024-25 Q3 Finance Report
Item led by: Matt Balding
Time: 11:00am to 11:20am
Duration: 20 minutes
Break
Time: 10:20am to 11:30am
Duration: 10 minutes
Item 4
Description: Optional session – Vexatious complaints policy
For review and advice: Paper 3 – Vexatious complaints policy
Item led by: Stephen Tebbutt
Time: 11:30am to 11:50am
Duration: 20 minutes
Break
Time: 10:50am to 12:00pm
Duration: 10 minutes
Item 5
Description: Community Committee effectiveness survey report 2024
For review and advice: Paper 4 - Community Committee effectiveness survey report 2024
Item led by: Teagan Allen
Time: 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Duration: 30 minutes
Item 6
Description: Working with vulnerable people (safeguarding) policy
For review and advice: Paper 5 – Working with vulnerable people (safeguarding) policy
Item led by: Stephen Tebbutt
Time: 12:30pm – 12:55pm
Duration: 25 minutes
Item 7
Description: Any other business (AOB) including any reflections on the effectiveness of this meeting
Item led by: All
Time: 12:55pm to 13:00pm
Duration: 5 minutes
Next meeting: Friday 12 May 2025 10am to 1pm (3 hours)