The work was commissioned and funded by the SBRI Healthcare programme, an NHS England initiative, championed by the Academic Health Science Networks. GSPK Design in partnership with The Assistive Technology Team at Barnsley Hospital, The Centre for Assistive Technology & Connected Healthcare at the University of Sheffield and the NIHR Devices for Dignity Healthcare Technology Co-operative, will build on work from phase one and further develop a wireless smart switch to help people who have acute brain injury or severe disabilities using tiny electrical signals produced by muscles to engage with their environment.
“As a company we are in a unique position to be able to offer full product design, manufacture and regulatory support under one roof,” said managing director of GSPK Design, Paul Marsh. “This funding will not only allow us to develop the product to take it through clinical trials and to market, but it will also allow us to implement medical standards into our processes that will not only benefit us, but also our other customers.”
The current phase of the project is set to take twelve months at which point GSPK Design will start to sell the product on the market.
