The NHS-run Marlborough Family Service Education Centre in Westminster, which provides treatment for five- to 16-year-olds with emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families, won a NHS Innovator London Award for its heart rate monitor project last week.
The pilot project, which has worked with 29 children, aims to alert young people when they are getting stressed so they can try to control their behaviour. Children wear the monitors at school and at home as well as at the centre.
"The monitors provide a practical, concrete and fun way of addressing issues - the children think the monitors are cool as they associate them with sport," said Anthony Scrafton, early intervention worker at the centre.
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