Kitt Medical becomes Corporate Partner of Allergy UK (incorporating Anaphylaxis UK) to make every school and qualifying businesses anaphylaxis-ready
Kitt Medical, the UK's managed anaphylaxis emergency service, has today announced a Corporate Partnership with Allergy UK (incorporating Anaphylaxis UK), the national charity for people living with allergy.
Simone Miles, CEO of Allergy UK (incorporating Anaphylaxis UK) with Zak Marks, CEO of Kitt Medical, pictured after filming the introduction to the Anaphylaxis Kitt training course together.
What the partnership involves:
This partnership brings together the UK's leading allergy charity and the company putting emergency adrenaline on the walls of thousands of schools and qualifying businesses across the country, with a shared goal: ensuring that when someone experiences a severe allergic reaction, the people around them know what to do and have what they need to respond quickly and confidently.
The partnership brings together the UK's leading allergy charity and the company putting emergency adrenaline on the walls of thousands of schools and qualifying businesses across the country, with a shared goal: ensuring that when someone experiences a severe allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, the people nearby know what to do and have what they need to respond quickly and confidently.
At the heart of the partnership is training. Allergy UK Chief Executive Simone Miles and Kitt Medical Co-Founder and CEO Zak Marks appear together in Kitt Medical’s online training course to help learners understand how to recognise anaphylaxis and respond quickly with adrenaline. Allergy UK’s clinical team has also reviewed the content of the course, and Kitt Medical customers are recommended to utilise the further resources provided by the charity, including AllergyWise® Training.
Our CPD-accredited Kitt Medical training course consists of eight engaging videos, featuring allergy healthcare professionals including Professor Adam Fox and Dr Helen Evans-Howells, as well as Dr Lynn Thomas, Medical Director of St John Ambulance and Simone Miles, CEO of Allergy UK. Each video is followed by a set of relevant multiple-choice questions, and the full course takes at least 30 minutes to complete.
Why it matters:
Anaphylaxis can be fatal, and the speed at which adrenaline is given is critical. Yet many schools and workplaces still rely on individuals carrying their own adrenaline, and staff often lack the confidence to step in. Kitt Medical was founded to close that gap, providing wall-mounted adrenaline auto-injector ‘Kitts’ with incident reporting and automatic expiry, combined with online CPD-accredited training, all in one simple subscription.
Allergy UK has a proud track record of advancing allergy awareness, championing education and training, and improving access to adrenaline, including through its work on spare adrenaline auto-injectors in schools, Benedict's Law and Natasha's Law. By bringing together Allergy UK's trusted educational expertise and Kitt Medical's emergency response infrastructure, the partnership seeks to transform awareness into action and preparedness.
Allergy UK has a proud track record of advancing allergy awareness, championing education and training, and improving access to adrenaline, including its work on spare pens in schools, Benedict’s Law, and Natasha's Law. By bringing together Allergy UK’s trusted educational expertise and Kitt Medical's on-the-ground emergency provision, the partnership seeks to turn awareness into preparedness.
Allergy UK incorporating Anaphylaxis UK provide specialist resources and guidance for schools, workplaces, healthcare professionals and food businesses including allergy alerts, factsheets, helplines, and AllergyWise, their online allergy and anaphylaxis training service.
Zak Marks, Co-Founder and CEO of Kitt Medical, said:
"Kitt started with my own experience of living with severe allergies, and the realisation that in an emergency, the adrenaline is often not where it needs to be. Allergy UK, including Anaphylaxis UK have spent decades giving people the knowledge to stay safe. Partnering with the charity, and appearing alongside the CEO in our new online training course, means we can connect that knowledge directly to action. It’s a really exciting and important moment for our little startup, and one that personally means a lot to me.”
Simone Miles, Chief Executive of Allergy UK, said:
“At Allergy UK, incorporating Anaphylaxis UK, we believe awareness and preparedness go hand in hand. Through our partnership with Kitt Medical, we can help more schools and workplaces build the knowledge, confidence and practical capability needed to respond effectively to anaphylaxis. Together, we are turning awareness into action to help create safer environments for people living with allergies."
Kitt Medical’s Anaphylaxis Kitt Service is the all-in-one solution for compliance with Benedict's Law: Tracked and annually replenished spare adrenaline auto-injector pens (AAI’s), unlimited online CPD training on allergies and anaphylaxis for all staff, guidance, resources and allergy policy templates, near-miss and incident reporting with no-cost adrenaline replenishments, and a secure wall-mounted emergency Kitt (like a defibrillator, for allergies).
About Kitt Medical
Kitt Medical is a UK-based managed anaphylaxis emergency service. Founded in 2020 by Zak Marks and James Cohen, and backed by Dragons' Den investors Deborah Meaden and Steven Bartlett, Kitt provides thousands of schools and qualifying businesses across the UK with wall-mounted adrenaline auto-injector kits, CPD-accredited training and automatic expiry tracking, so organisations are always ready for an allergic emergency. Find out more at www.kittmedical.com
About Allergy UK
Allergy UK incorporating Anaphylaxis UK, is the national charity working to improve the lives of everyone affected by allergy. Through support, education, advocacy and research, the charity empowers people living with allergies to navigate daily life with greater confidence and safety. Supporting the full range of allergic conditions, from food, respiratory and skin allergies to drug and insect allergies and anaphylaxis. Allergy UK incorporating anaphylaxis UK provides trusted information, a helpline, AllergyWise® training, allergy alerts, and specialist resources for schools, workplaces, healthcare professionals and food businesses. The charity campaigns for better access to NHS allergy services, safer food labelling, improved allergy management in schools and wider access to adrenaline, while leading Allergy Awareness Week to drive greater public understanding of allergic disease.
Allergy UK is the operating name of the British Allergy Foundation, registered charity number 1094231. www.allergyuk.org
