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Infection and Immunity

Migrant Health Catch-UP!

Equitable preventative healthcare.

Health Catch-UP! is an approach to improving prevention and early diagnosis for people from migrant backgrounds in primary care. Using an electronic health record embedded clinical decision support tool, it helps primary healthcare professionals systematically identify unmet health needs and generate personalised recommendations for infectious disease screening, non-communicable disease prevention and catch-up vaccination based on national guidelines for people born outside of the UK.

Download the Quick Start Guide
Why Health Catch-UP!
16%
of the UK population born abroad*
No missed opportunities
Make every contact count
Built into routine care
Fits existing workflows
From guidelines to action
Supports delivery of national guidance
*Source to be confirmed before publishing.

Watch the introduction (coming soon)
3 minutes
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EMIS tool demo (coming soon)
See it used in a real consultation
Putting the Health Catch-UP! approach into practice
1. Quick start
2-minute overview, first steps
Quick Start Guide
2. Training
Introduce it to the whole practice
Training PowerPoint
3. In practice
Plan rollout, use day to day
4. Quality improvement
Evaluate and improve, when ready
QI Resource Pack
Built for the whole practice
Clinical champion
Leads implementation
Admin champion
Identifies and invites patients
GP / Nurse / HCA / AHP
Delivers screening
Practice manager
Monitors progress
GP registrar
Supports quality improvement
Patient information resources

Available in multiple languages for use in practice and community settings.

Video
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Translated resources
Coming soon
Clinical guidance and resources

Condition-by-condition links to NICE, UKHSA and NHS England guidance.

Clinical guidance

Aligned with national standards:

  • NICE guidelines
  • NHS England elimination programmes
  • UKHSA migrant health guide.
Condition/topicKey resources (UK-focused)
Tuberculosis (LTBI)NICE CKS Tuberculosis
NHS England LTBI Programme
UKHSA TB Guidance
Hepatitis BNICE CKS Hepatitis B
UKHSA Hepatitis B
British Liver Trust
Hepatitis CNICE CKS Hepatitis C
UKHSA Hepatitis C
British Liver Trust
HIVNICE CKS HIV
Chagas DiseaseUK Chagas Hub (Hospital for Tropical Disease)
Strongyloidiasis and schistosomiasisUKHSA Migrant Health Guide (helminths)
Schistosomiasis (Patient.info)
Strongyloidiasis (Patient.info)
Vaccination (catch-up)UKHSA Catch-up Vaccination Guidance
Green Book
Cardiovascular risk (CVD)NICE CKS CVD Risk Assessment
Haemoglobinopathies (Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia)NICE CKS Anaemia
NHS Screening Programme
Care for Migrant PatientsUKHSA Migrant Health Guide
Doctors of the World Safe Surgeries Toolkit