Migrant Health Catch-UP!
Health Catch-UP is a primary care clinical decision support tool that sits in the electronic health record designed to support primary health care professionals to deliver preventative healthcare for patients from migrant backgrounds through a multi-disease health check.
This toolkit provides practical guidance, training materials, and patient resources to support implementation in routine primary care.
Health Catch-UP! Toolkit
Equitable, systematic prevention in primary care
Health Catch-UP! is a clinical decision support tool for primary care, designed to help identify and address unmet health needs in people from migrant backgrounds. It supports a more systematic approach to care, ensuring important health issues are not missed.
The tool has been developed using research methodology including behavioural and implementation science, input from patients and healthcare professionals, and practical experience, with a focus on making it easier to use in everyday clinical practice.
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Core Health Catch-UP! concepts
Click each concept below to reveal its definition. These principles underpin the design and delivery of the tool.
Making every contact count
No missed opportunities - Use routine primary care interactions as opportunities for prevention, early diagnosis and holistic care.
Whole person, multi-disease care
One consultation, whole health - Deliver integrated screening and prevention across infectious diseases, chronic conditions and risk factors.
Equity-driven approach
Focus where need is greatest - Proactively identify and address unmet health needs in migrant populations.
Data-informed care
Code it, use it, act on it - Use structured demographic coding (e.g. coding of origin) to guide personalised, evidence-based care.
Whole-team approach
Everyone has a role - Engage the entire practice team, clinical and non-clinical in delivering and supporting Health Catch-UP!
Culturally competent, trust building care
Connect and build trust - Delivering care in a respectful, non-stigmatising and accessible way and builds patient trust.
Flexible and community-connected access
Reach people where they are - Provide care through multiple e routes (opportunistic, outreach, digital) working with community partners to improve reach and uptake.
Sustainable integration into routine care
Make it routine to make it last - Embed Health Catch-UP! into everyday workflows, supporting by training, quality improvement and system alignment.
More about the Migrant Health Catch-UP!
How to use
Flexible delivery models:
- New patient checks - Embed at registration
- Opportunistic use - Use in routine consults
- Nurse clinics - HICA-led delivery
- Outreach - Community engagement.
Staff resources
Everything your team needs to implement:
- Implementation guide
- Training slides
- EMIS guide
- QI pack and searches
- CLinical pathwards.
Patient resources
Co-produced, multilingual materials, designed to support trust, understanding, and uptake in consultations and outreach:
- Leaflets
- SMS templates
- Posters
- Video.
Translations
Available languages:
- Arabic
- Farsi
- Somali
- Urdu
- More.
Clinical guidance
Aligned with national standards:
- NICE guidelines
- NHS England elimination programmes
- UKHSA migrant health guide.
| Condition/topic | Key resources (UK-focused) |
|---|---|
| Tuberculosis (LTBI) | NICE CKS Tuberculosis NHS England LTBI Programme UKHSA TB Guidance |
| Hepatitis B | NICE CKS Hepatitis B UKHSA Hepatitis B British Liver Trust |
| Hepatitis C | NICE CKS Hepatitis C UKHSA Hepatitis C British Liver Trust |
| HIV | NICE CKS HIV |
| Chagas Disease | UK Chagas Hub (Hospital for Tropical Disease) |
| Strongyloidiasis and schistosomiasis | UKHSA 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 Patients | UKHSA Migrant Health Guide Doctors of the World Safe Surgeries Toolkit |