Insights

How NHS spending, technology adoption, and clinical outcomes vary across England. Written for MedTech, diagnostics, and digital health teams navigating UK market access.

The Innovation Gap Geography of Health Money

The Innovation Gap

Why publicly funded breakthroughs stall between the lab and the patient.

Life Sciences · Commercialisation
The quarter-million pound gap — why UK research gets stuck on the shelf
Billions in public R&D investment stalls for want of £250k in proof-of-concept funding. The bottleneck is smaller than you think.
28 February 2026

Geography of Health

How disease burden, clinical capacity, and outcomes vary across England.

Primary Care · Diabetes
Where diabetes is rising fastest — Greater Manchester mapped across 407 practices
8.17% prevalence and rising. Borough-level variation from 6.7% to 9.6% — the geography your market access strategy needs.
24 February 2026

Money

Where NHS spending goes, how it's changing, and what it means for health technology.

Health Economics · Defence & Fiscal Policy
The NHS can’t outspend the problem
Defence spending is rising from 2.3% to 5% of GDP. Health budgets are about to go flat. The only way forward is technology-driven efficiency.
28 February 2026
Health Economics · UK Spending
How much does the UK spend on health? £317 billion and rising
27 years of healthcare expenditure traced — from 6.9% to 11% of GDP. Where the money goes, who pays, and what the trends tell us.
27 February 2026

Analysis that connects to your market

We help MedTech companies, diagnostics firms, and health-AI startups understand the NHS landscape — so you can build the evidence case for adoption.

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