From supporting the international spread and adoption of health-tech to new appointments in Surrey, a round up of World Patient Safety Day activities and a blog on social enterprise in the NHS, we've got it all covered in this edition

Published on the last day of NHS Expo 2019, this issue is packed full with the latest news from Manchester, plus details of a new £1.6m funding win much closer to home.

This issue came out on the hottest day of 2019, so far. Now things have cooled down a bit, take the time to catch up on a great range of articles covering everything from Outstanding CQC ratings in Kent to a blog on Industry trends.

We're thrilled to be able to bring you the news that £9m of government funding has been approved for the new Kent, Surrey and Sussex Applied Research Collaboration​. There's plenty of others new too - check it out!

The latest edition of our newsletter brings a range of news from across the region, including: details on our conference activities and Tech Navigation service; a blog or two; short films on our work with industry, and loads more!

Last call for the last few seats at the KSS Partnership Day 2019, read about our teams' success at the Patient Safety Congress, find out about the AHSN Network’s presence at Confed 19 and check out some funding opportunities.

We’re stuffed full with news on awards, pilot sites, events, surveys, guides, toolkits, industry insights and publications. In short, everything you’ve ever wanted, or needed, to know about. Possibly.

If you missed the ad at the top of this page about our Partnership Day (July 5, Gatwick), you can read all about it in Collaborate. You’ll also be able to find articles on a range of topics, watch a video, and complete a survey.

Awards successes, two articles detailing our work/impact in Parliament, the Oxygen Wristband Project, Ted Talks, tech surveys, and news from outer space, literally, all appear in this edition of our Collaborate newsletter.

We bring you a round-up of a fab four day event that helped healthcare innovators test out their business ideas, and the news that University of Surrey is part of a new £20m Research and Technology Centre.

To read about everything from delivering better patient experiences to collaborating on serious incidents, and everything else in between, make sure to click on this bumper-packed edition of Collaborate

Issue 21 has more than 21 items of news and interest, including details of our latest Innovate magazine, PReCePT work, a NICE survey, Future Challenges, and details of the Transfer of Care Around Medicines project in East Sussex.

Two reports highlighting the patient safety work of Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and the Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) they host have been published by the AHSN Network.

Congratulations to our partners Surrey and Borders Partnership and the University of Surrey on their successful £1.6 million bid to fund a health technology accelerator centre on the Surrey University campus.

KSS AHSN provided an independent evaluation of a programme to develop system leadership across Sussex and East Surrey STP (as it was at the time of the programme being delivered).

We bring you a handy round-up of current funding opportunities, covering range of areas including research and development, SME competitiveness, digital growth and leadership.  

£9m of funding has been awarded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to establish an Applied Research Collaboration in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.