{"id":195937,"date":"2026-03-14T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/nhs-and-mod-will-be-urged-to-buy-british-tech-to-drive-growth-amid-iran-crisis-business\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T21:12:31","slug":"nhs-and-mod-will-be-urged-to-buy-british-tech-to-drive-growth-amid-iran-crisis-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/nhs-and-mod-will-be-urged-to-buy-british-tech-to-drive-growth-amid-iran-crisis-business\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS and MoD will be urged to buy British tech to drive growth amid Iran crisis | Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/14\/nhs-ministry-of-defence-buy-british-tech-kickstart-growth-artificial-intelligence-rachel-reeves\">NHS and MoD will be urged to buy British tech to drive growth amid Iran crisis | Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/14\/nhs-ministry-of-defence-buy-british-tech-kickstart-growth-artificial-intelligence-rachel-reeves\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/14\/nhs-ministry-of-defence-buy-british-tech-kickstart-growth-artificial-intelligence-rachel-reeves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-14 02:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sure, here is a respectful and concise summary of the article in an unordered list format:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The UK government, through Treasury minister Spencer Livermore, is urging NHS and Ministry of Defence to prioritize buying British technology, particularly in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).<br \/>\n&#8211; Chancellor Rachel Reeves will outline her economic strategy, focusing on strategic choices to strengthen regional policies, link Northern cities better, and invest heavily in the potential benefits of AI to boost growth amidst the Iran crisis.<br \/>\n&#8211; Despite concerns about AI\u2019s potential negative impact on jobs, Livermore emphasized the huge growth and opportunity opportunities AI brings, aiming for the UK to become a leading adopter of new technologies.<br \/>\n&#8211; To support homegrown tech firms and fast-track procurement of new technologies, a rapid innovation procurement taskforce is being established and piloted in the defence and health sectors.<br \/>\n&#8211; Labour, while criticized for cozy relationships with US tech giants, is now more open to a closer trading relationship with the EU without compromising on core manifesto red lines like free movement of people.<br \/>\n&#8211; Amid fears of rising oil prices driving higher inflation, the government maintains strong economic fundamentals and has taken preemptive fiscal measures to enhance economic stability and resilience through \u2018securonomics\u2019.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS and MoD will be urged to buy British tech to drive growth amid Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/06f8bddd1e744c82ed4e1551d49311e89c408e19\/454_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=dd26a62368155b8498d2e14072028a92","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-195937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195939,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195937\/revisions\/195939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}