Service Validation: NHS Health Checks

Impact
Written By Simon Sharp

Challenge: An NHS Health Check programme for 40-74-year-olds needed to improve uptake rates, which varied significantly across demographic groups.

Approach Socio-demographic analysis of the NHS Health Check database to identify factors affecting service uptake across ethnicity, gender, and invitation methods.

Outcomes

  • Identified ethnicity, gender, and invitation method as key factors impacting uptake

  • Specific groups with lower uptake were identified

  • Invitation method effectiveness

  • Recommended tailored recruitment and invitation strategies to improve uptake

  • Peer-reviewed paper written to disseminate results, cited over 50 times.

Simon Sharp
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