
Research Support Awards recognise vital contributions to the future of health and care
30 March 2023
The winners of the CRN KSS Research Support Awards have been announced
30 March 2023
The winners of the CRN KSS Research Support Awards have been announced
10 March 2023
Claire Pegg appointed CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussex has appointed Claire Pegg appointed as Chief Nurse Research Lead
06 March 2023
Professionals and public contributors from the health and care research sector across Kent, Surrey and Sussex joined an online event tackling the challenges of paying public contributors.
02 March 2023
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust took a number of quotes from the PRES and turned them into artwork for public display
17 January 2023
NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) Kent, Surrey and Sussex is working with two voluntary organisations in Medway to engage communities under-served within research to improve inclusion and representation in health and care research.
09 November 2022
Parents across Kent, Surrey and Sussex are being urged to support a new respiratory virus study looking into the UK’s leading cause of infant hospitalisation.
07 November 2022
CRN KSS Research Support Awards 2022 announcement
03 November 2022
A study involving teenagers from Kent and Brighton has found giving a meningitis vaccine to 14 to 19-year-olds helps protect people of all ages.
24 October 2022
Clinical trials across the south east are underway to investigate if an existing medicine can potentially work as a disease-modifying option for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.
17 October 2022
Royal Surrey kick off major PPIE initiative
21 September 2022
Researchers are urging people from across Kent, Surrey and Sussex to join a national register designed to give people access to potentially life-changing dementia research.
01 September 2022
A new treatment trialled in Surrey, and described as ‘potentially one of the biggest weapons in the fight against prostate cancer’, has been given the green light by the medicines regulator.
11 August 2022
Members of the CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussex (CRN KSS) Research Delivery Team spoke to over 100 Kent and Medway secondary school students about health and care research and careers in research at a recent medical fayre.
01 August 2022
At the recent CRN KSS PPIE Community Forum, colleagues from NHS Trusts, and other health and care organisations in Kent, Surrey and Sussex shared their experiences, challenges and plans for the future.
18 July 2022
CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussex’s Research Delivery Team’s poster won in the ‘Organisation or Administration’ category at this year's UK Clinical Research Facility Network conference.
12 July 2022
The second meeting of the CRN Kent, Surrey & Sussex Early Career Researcher group took place on Wednesday 15 June, chaired by Professor Raj Rajkumar, Associate Director for the Development of Early Career Researchers.
07 July 2022
More than 73,000 people across Kent, Surrey and Sussex participated in health and care research studies over the last year, according to new statistics released by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
29 June 2022
A new Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) has opened at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, East Kent.
20 June 2022
Colleagues across the NIHR turned out wearing red outfits, to show their appreciation for all of the researchers, patients and members of the public who continue to support health and care research studies.
26 May 2022
The NIHR nationwide observational portfolio study Sprint National Anaesthesia Project 3 (SNAP3): Frailty & Delirium exploring the impact of surgery and anaesthesia on older patients, recruited the highest number of participants within CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussex region at the end of March 2022.
24 May 2022
The Kent, Surrey and Sussex Research Delivery Team focuses on supporting health and care research within the outside-of-hospital setting and covers all three of our counties - Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The team comprise nurses and practitioners who have experience of delivering health and care research across different types of organisations and settings and across a number of specialites.
20 May 2022
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is marking International Clinical Trials Day 2022 with the launch of TrialBlazers - a campaign celebrating the thousands of people who take part in, and support trials and studies across the UK.
20 May 2022
A statement of thanks to those who have taken part in research for International Clinical Trials Day 2022
05 April 2022
NIHR partners in the south east of England have been building relationships with organisations from the Black ethnic group as a whole and the Asian ethnic group as a whole. Regular meetings with representatives from community groups led to the development of an online ‘Reaching Out’ event in June 2021.
31 March 2022
Colleagues from across Kent, Surrey and Sussex who work in research, or have a role in research have been saying thank you to NHS colleagues who have made a difference to the delivery of health and care research, enabling patients to be given the opportunities to take part in a range of studies.