Entries tagged with 'fair trade'

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  1. The Dark side of Healthcare

    SwedWatch report about Swedish county councils´ procurement of goods from India and Pakistan.

    from SwedWatch on 18 April 2007 | Download | Comment on this

  2. Fair and Ethical Trade in Health: Lessons from Surgical Instruments

    The NHS spends £20 billion on procuring a wide range of medical goods every year. Worldwide, the amount traded in products for health care runs into trillions of dollars. With such large sums of money we quite rightly ask about value for money as well as the quality of the goods we buy. But in addition to quality we should, but don't, ask about the conditions under which those goods are made. Unfortunately, recent research has found that some of the products we are using to promote health in the UK may actually be damaging health elsewhere, through unethical labour practices in their manufacture.

    from The Royal College of Surgeons of England on 04 April 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this

  3. Ethical Procurement for Health

    Consultation on the first national guidance on ethical procurement in healthcare (published 8 December 2008 by NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency).

    from SHEBA on 26 June 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this

  4. Fair and ethical trade in health procurement

    Mahmood F Bhutta The Lancet, Volume 372, Issue 9654, Pages 1935 - 1937, 6 December 2008 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61826-7 "On Dec 8, 2008, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHS PASA) will launch a consultation called Ethical Procurement for Health, a guidance document designed to ensure that goods purchased for use in the NHS are manufactured ethically. Ethical manufacturing means adherence to basic international labour standards and must be fair (ie, workers are paid a living wage). The document details the policies that individual NHS organisations need to develop, from the first steps in ethical procurement, such as a risk-assessment exercise, to eventually being a champion of ethical procurement, with monitoring and external reporting of policies and activities."

    from SHEBA on 26 June 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this