Insights

Over £7.4 billion a year is to be spent on small businesses by 2028.

This webinar with the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England outlined updates to the Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC), aimed at simplifying and standardising digital health assurance. The session explored reduced duplication, clearer guidance and longer-term reform plans to improve consistency, streamline procurement and support supplier adoption across the NHS.

Guest blog by Deann Evans, Managing Director, EMEA at Shopify

Event round-up from the techUK webinar with Marsh and Bristows on how to protect your IP.

Read our latest report, Spreading Wings: Taking Innovative SMEs Global, examining the barriers preventing UK tech SMEs from exporting and setting out practical recommendations to strengthen support, reduce friction and enable more innovative businesses to scale internationally.

techUK is pleased to once again partner with Tussell and The Data City on the 2026 Tech 200 list.

Airbus Endeavr Wales, a partnership with the Welsh Government, has announced new 2026 research funding to support innovation across advanced manufacturing, AI, cyber security and sustainability. The latest challenges focus on low observability simulation and multi-domain communications, with funding available to eligible Wales-based organisations.

This guest blog is an abridged version of a webinar presented to techUK members by Karim Budabuss, Director of Grant Advisory at incentives and reliefs specialist, ForrestBrown, on grant funding in 2026.

techUK’s Life Sciences Working Group is pleased to share its 2026 priorities and work programme – a member driven plan shaped through nominations, consultation and a strategic planning session held at the end of 2025.

The government have finally published an impact statement of the 10 Year Health Plan. It is fair to say that this falls short of an implementation plan, as there remains a lack of timelines and financial frameworks included to work from and measure impact.