The club is financing the University of Leicester's Parental Expression of The Acuity of iLLness (PETALL) study, which is investigating how parents and carers express their concerns about children's health.
Researchers plan to produce a language guide to help parents convey what they mean so that doctors and nurses can get the most out of the interaction.
Project lead Damian Roland, associate professor of paediatric emergency care at the university, claimed there had been examples of children suffering life-changing illnesses, or even dying, because doctors and nurses had been slow to pick up on critical information.
Roland suggested that misunderstandings could result from how concerned or unconcerned parents appeared.
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