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The prototype innovation allows at-home or primary care testing of micronutrient levels using an integrated finger-prick and minimal amount of blood. The innovation pairs microfluidics and lateral flow technology to enable parallel semi-quantitative testing of numerous analyte concentrations. The device is simple to use eliminating additional apparatus and complex steps. Results will be analysed using a phone app for clear decision-making, with data uploaded to healthcare providers automatically.

Emotional Eating, where lowered mood or raised anxiety leads to eating superfluous, often unhealthy, food, is a significant contributor to childhood obesity.

This feasibility study will plan and design innovative, positive, and empowering digital tools to help children recognise and overcome Emotional Eating, increase physical activity, and eat more healthily.

These new digital tools will be designed for incorporation within Headway, the suite of digital mental health tools that we have been developing with our collaborators at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex.

Our project will test new methods of decontaminating airway devices onsite so that they can be re-used safely whilst reducing the carbon cost significantly. These new methods will use ultraviolet radiation or a chemical, hydrogen peroxide, to destroy germs which may still be on the device after washing with water. To make sure these methods are safe for patients we will test how well the devices are cleaned using a specialist method to test for the presence of germs in very low numbers.