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Kitt Medical partners with St John Ambulance to Increase Allergy Awareness
St John Ambulance is England's leading first aid charity. Together, we’ll improve the quality of life for those living with severe allergies and increase the availability of emergency anaphylaxis treatment.
Teacher with no known allergies survives sudden life-threatening allergic reaction
A teacher experienced life-threatening anaphylaxis after drinking a ginger beer. An adrenaline pen from a Kitt was used by her colleague and he was credited with saving her life.
Alton Towers Becomes First Theme Park Worldwide to Install Anaphylaxis Kitts
We're NOW finally able to supply our Kitt service to qualifying businesses with occupational health schemes for staff use.
To kick off, we partnered with Alton Towers Resort, installing 17 Anaphylaxis Kitts across the theme park - with a subscription supply of adrenaline pens alongside CPD-accredited online training.
Local UK schools lead on allergy management
To mark National Allergy Awareness Week last month, local UK schools across Liverpool and Nottingham were highlighted and applauded for their efforts to get proactive about allergy care.
Family of 14-year-old girl who had severe allergic reaction at school “dread” what could have happened without Anaphylaxis Kitt
Ava was attending a dance rehearsal at the Harris Rainham Academy in Essex, when she had a severe allergic reaction and couldn’t find her adrenaline pens. Thankfully, an Anaphylaxis Kitt was installed nearby.
Understanding Allergy: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment.
Allergy has been labelled by the World Health Organisation as a global epidemic, affecting approximately 550 million people globally. But what actually is allergy? What causes it? and how can it be treated? Let’s start from the very beginning.
How it’s going: Our Q1 update
After a well deserved easter break, I wanted to reflect on our amazingly successful Q1 at Kitt Medical, where we achieved some incredible milestones:
Launching our medtech startup after 2.5 years
We’re finally here - delivering our emergency Anaphylaxis Kitts, along with CPD accredited training and software to schools nationwide!
Welcome to launch week
Today we started sending out the first wave of Anaphylaxis Kitt contracts to schools and academies across the country...
Winning the Santander X Launch Award 2022
Very, very, VERY excited to say that we’ve just won the Santander X Launch Award 2022!
We’re finalists in the Santander X UK Awards
We’re part of the 100 UK university startups shortlisted from 500+ businesses for entry into the Santander UK X Awards 2022!
Closing our second round of investment funding
We’ve officially closed our second investment round! (But that’s not all…)
The importance of having perspective
Looking back two years ago, Kitt Medical was just a prototyped idea named ‘ana.’ that I was building in my university bedroom.
Kitt Medical on the ‘Eating at a Meeting Podcast’
Chatted with Tracy Stuckrath on her 'Eating at a meeting' podcast about all things Kitt, allergy legislation, future plans and more!
Announcing that we’re raising a second round of investment
We’re raising a round of investment to help accelerate our launch and boost us to the next stage in our journey.
Announcing our training partnership with The Allergy Team
Our video training course on allergy and anaphylaxis in schools will be included with every Kitt subscription 🙌🏼
Flying on an airplane with a severe allergy to nuts
There have been a number of recent incidents highlighting the lack of awareness and preparedness in airlines when it comes to dealing with allergies and anaphylaxis, so I thought I would share my own story.
We won the Mayor’s Entrepreneur Award!
We’ve been overwhelmed with the support we've received since our winning pitch at City Hall for the Mayor's Entrepreneur Award!
My perspective of what it’s like to live with severe allergies
I never eat anything unless I know what’s in it.