In this edition we look forward to the Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester on 5 & 6 September and we offer our guest blog slot to Nuffield Trust and Richard Darch who discuss reinventing the hospital.

We are celebrating 70 years of the NHS! Find out about our #NHS70 Celebrations and have a read of our annual review.

In this issue we congratulate our KSS colleagues on their success at the HSJ Awards and we hand the blog space over to Rob Berry, Head of Innovation who talks about what to do when you can't afford cost-effective.

We are celebrating the relisencing of AHSNs! We look forward to Confed and CogX and we offer our guest blog to Paul Corrigan as we anticipate the 70th birthday of the NHS.

Find out about the AHSN Network AI Initiative and the launch of our new survey that will scope out AI in healthcare.

We have rebranded collaborate and we launch it's new look in a special feature edition on the first ever National Bridging The Gap Event in London!

Read about our plans for this new financial year and our next lisence, and how these compliment the Berwick Tripple Aims. We also look into an independant evaluation of the NIA and the £12m savings it has created in year 1.

We congratulate Transforming Systems on winning the 'Partnership with the NHS' category of the Mayor of London Medtech Awards. And we announce the launch of the Kent Surrey Sussex Digital Health Accelerator!

In this edition we share with you some of the highlights from the Surrey Heartlands Expo and hear from some of our key stakeholders what the event meant to them.

Following Reform UK's Thinking on It's Own, we invited Eleonara Harwich to write a blog for us. Read AI: the promise vs the reality at scale.

In this edition we invite Eric Kihlstrom, co-founder of KareInn, to take over our guest blog. Read Loyalty Cards: your personal healthcare assistant

Check out our latest Bridging the Gap ainimations and hear about the recently published report from the King's Fund "Adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS". Ben Collins, the report's author, fills our guest blog slot his personal take on the issue.

The NHS has launched the Suspicion of Sepsis (SOS) Insight Dashboard to improve efforts to tackle the deadly infection.

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and the AHSN Network have announced a new, five-year partnership to accelerate the introduction and uptake of transformative biomedical innovations into the NHS.

Five NHS digital health accelerators launch across England today, as part of the largest push yet to rapidly increase the speed of digital health products take up in the NHS. Find out more

A new 'state of the nation' report about the use of Artificial Intelligence in health and care has found that we are only beginning to unlock the potential of AI. Find out more

Eight projects from across Kent, Surrey and Sussex are in the running to receive up to £30,000 in the Q Exchange initiative.