Trial reportThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2021
Increasing uptake of NHS Health Checks: a randomised controlled trial using GP computer prompts.
Trial report in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- Gendered Patterns of Engagement With NHS Health Checks in a Super-Diverse City: Community Perspectives and Implications for Equity.Public health challenges · 2026Article
- Ethnic differences in the burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors among adult residents of London: the TOGETHER study.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- The effectiveness of interventions used to improve general health check uptake by the older adult population: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Do clinical decision support tools improve quality of care outcomes in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2024Article
- What factors influence differential uptake of NHS Health Checks, diabetes and hypertension reviews among women in ethnically diverse South London? Cross-sectional analysis of 63,000 primary care records.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Article
- NHS Health Check programme: a rapid review update.BMJ open · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundPublic Health England wants to increase the uptake of the NHS Health Check (NHSHC), a cardiovascular disease prevention programme. Most invitations are sent by letter, but opportunistic invitations may be issued and verbal invitations have a higher rate of uptake. Prompting staff to issue opportunistic invitations might increase uptake.
aimTo assess the effect on uptake of automated prompts to clinical staff to invite patients to NHSHC, delivered via primary care computer systems. DESIGN AND
settingPseudo-randomised controlled trial of patients eligible for the NHSHC attending GP practices in Southwark, London.
methodEligible patients were allocated into one of two conditions, (a) Prompt and (b) No Prompt, to clinical staff. The primary outcome was attendance at an NHSHC.
resultsFifteen of 43 (34.88%) practices in Southwark were recruited; 7564 patients were eligible for an NHSHC, 3778 (49.95%) in the control and 3786 (50.05%) in the intervention. Attendance in the intervention arm was 454 (12.09%) compared with 280 (7.41%) in the control group, a total increase of 4.58% (OR = 2.28; 95% CI = 1.46 to 3.55;
conclusionPrompts on computer systems in general practice were effective at improving the uptake of the NHSHC, especially for males and younger patients.
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