In September 2017, Sitekit’s eRedbook joined the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme for high potential digital health SMEs. Working alongside the Accelerator’s experienced team of Digital Health (NHS) Navigators will enable the Sitekit team to engage with parents, local childcare champions and health organisations in London to accelerate adoption and access to the eRedbook, the UK’s first online Personal Child Health Record.
Sitekit has also been working with the Managed Service Network (MSN) for Children & Young People with Cancer in Scotland on the development of the MyStoryNow app: a secure digital tool for young cancer patients to view information held in their Person Held File (PHF) and share this with health professionals, family members and friends.
In October 2017, Sitekit was one of five projects successfully awarded funding in Phase 1 of the first Cancer Innovation Challenge SBRI funding competition looking for new approaches to record and integrate cancer PROMs (patient recorded outcome measures) and PREMs (patient recorded experience measures). Sitekit’s project focuses on providing a digital platform for the Teenager and Young Adult (TYA) cancer service in Scotland that recognises each individual’s needs are different and that they require person-centred, needs-led interventions and support.
And in the education sphere, Sitekit has been working with West Highland College (part of the University of the Highlands and Islands) to design an innovative, web-based Foundation Apprenticeship in IT. The aim is to enable pupils in more remote secondary schools, such as those in the west coast of Scotland, to obtain relevant commercial work experience that is normally only available in an urban setting.
“We continue to employ over 20 here in Portree on Skye, and that’s a sizable business for the island, but we also have offices in Edinburgh, Oxfordshire and London. Right now, we are looking to recruit another ten people to the team, and that will take us to over 60 employees across all sites.
“Of course, being based on Skye means I have to travel a lot. But for me, the benefits of living here outweigh the travelling. I was brought up here and so it will always be home. For me, there really is nowhere else in the world that is quite like the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.”
"I began this business on the Isle of Skye and we have managed to build something that now has a national and international reputation. We have had good support and advice along the way from the local team at HIE and from others such as SDI and the wonderful GlobalScot network." Campbell Grant.
