Increasing attendance at Childrens' Health Checks

The Change Lab team supported Central London Healthcare (CLH) to design an intervention to encourage parents of children aged 3-13 years living in Westminster to attend for a NHS Child Health Check and to invite them to the ELSA study (screening for Type1 diabetes).

The Change Lab team led a co-design session with CLH and also consulted with parents, to design the text message intervention(s), which NIHR Clinical Research Network North West London (NIHR CRN NWL) have announced as the most successful recruitment in Primary Care in the country. CLH have consented 433 children into this study and to date the majority of the recruitment for Primary Care is from CLH GP Practices. Current data shows there are only 97 recruits elsewhere nationally.

This intervention is currently live, with data analysis planned.