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Augmented Reality app for children and young people in the first year following diagnosis with epilepsy tailored to each individual to enhance patient and carer understanding of epilepsy, provide safety advice for greater confidence in managing epilepsy at home and enable greater communication with clinicians to improve patient outcomes. This will make use of augmented reality to show patients how their epilepsy occurs and how their treatment works. The information will also be tailored to each user's learning level and made available on a wide range of mobile devices so that as many people as possible can use the app.

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.