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Infection and Immunity

Migrant Health Catch-UP!

Equitable preventative healthcare.

Health Catch-UP! was developed to help you in general practice improve prevention and early diagnosis for people from migrant backgrounds. Using a free EMIS-embedded clinical decision support tool that helps you 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 adults born outside of the UK.

Health Catch-UP! can fit inside your existing workflows and support practices meeting QOF and other GP priorities around prevention and health inequalities. Explore the resources below to find out more today.

Why Health Catch-UP!

>16%
of the UK population born abroad*
Systematic prevention
Make every contact count
Integrated
Fits existing workflows
Built on national guidance
NICE, UKHSA

*(Source: ONS Census 2021)

Watch the introduction
4 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

We've brought everything together to help you get started, involve your team and make Health Catch-UP! work for your practice.

💡 You don't need to read everything!

Start with the basics, then dip into the more detailed and optional resources when you need them.

1. Get started
Start here for an overview and next steps
Quick Read Introduction
A short overview of Health Catch-UP!
Example Implementation Roadmap
See the whole journey at a glance and find the resources that are right for you
2. Introduce Health Catch-UP! to your practice
Bring your team on board
Training PowerPoint
An easy way to introduce Health Catch-UP! to your practice team, bring this short presentation to your practice meeting and explore how it can fit into routine care.
Alignment with GP priorities
See how Health Catch-UP! supports and aligns with NHS priorities and primary care priorities (QOF, NHS long term, health inequalities)
3. Put it into practice
Plan your approach and make Health Catch-UP! part of routine care
Implementation Pack (Long Read)
Practical guidance to help you plan and introduce Health Catch-UP! in your practice, navigate to the section most relevant to your role.
Screening Pathway
Step-by-step guidance to support screening and follow-up in practice
4. Use Health Catch-UP! for Quality improvement
Turn your Health Catch-UP! work into a quality improvement project focused on health equity, with practical tools and templates to support you
Quality Improvement Resource Pack
A step-by-step guide to help you plan and carry out a quality improvement project using Health Catch-UP!
Quality improvement project report template
A ready made template, simply fill in, present to your team and upload to your portfolio


Together, these five roles show how Health Catch-UP! is built to run as a shared effort across the practice team, with each person's contribution supporting the others.

Clinical champion

The clinical champion leads implementation in the practice. They engage the team and help embed Health Catch-UP! in routine care, and they work closely with the admin champion to keep things moving.

Admin champion

The admin champion promotes Health Catch-UP! within the practice, for example through patient messages, posters and invitations. They identify eligible patients using EMIS searches and send out invitations by SMS, letter or phone. They support and work alongside the clinical champion.

GP / Nurse / HCA / AHP

This group delivers screening, vaccinations and health checks as part of routine care, using EMIS prompts to guide them. They draw on Health Catch-UP! resources and training materials, and they provide feedback to support ongoing improvement.

Practice manager

The practice manager monitors progress and screening uptake. They support workforce and workflow integration, ensure Health Catch-UP! is part of wider quality improvement plans, and help address practical barriers so the approach can be sustained over time.

GP registrar

This role supports quality improvement and service development. They help analyse data and evaluate impact, contribute to training, and support the sharing of learning across the practice. They also work with the clinical and admin champions.

Patient information resources

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

Leaflet
Hand out at reception or during consultations or send to patients by text.
Poster
Display in your waiting room, on practice screens or share with community organisations.
Video
Short animated video you can play in your waiting room or share with patients via text message as a simple introduction to Health Catch-UP!
Watch video
SMS template
Add to your Accurx templates to explain Health Catch-UP! and encourage patients to attend.
Workshop template
Use with community organisations or your Patient Participation Group to introduce Health Catch-UP! and take preventative health into the community.
Translated resources
Find all above Health Catch-UP! resources translated into multiple languages.

Clinical guidance and resource for use in practice

Explore the clinical guidance that underpins Health Catch-UP!, with resources to support you in practice, during consultations and when interpreting results.

Clinical guidance [Click to expand]

The Migrant Health Catch-UP! project is a multidisciplinary collaborative project led by the Migrant Health Research Group City St George’s.

To contact the Health Catch-UP! team email clinical lead Dr Jessica Carter jcarter@sgul.ac.uk / jessica.carter@nhs.net