Sustainable procurement
New - Ethical Procurement for Health: Guidance
The first national guidance on ethical procurement in healthcare was published for consultation on 8 December 2008.
Procuring for health and sustainability 2012: sustainable procurement action plan
The health and social care sector response to the Sustainable Procurement Task Force report - published 30 November 2007
This action plan sets out how, in the next five years, the health and social care sector in England will use sustainable procurement, not only of equipment and supplies, but also buildings, facilities and services, to achieve improved health and well-being for the people, the environment and the economy. The action plan sets the direction for NHS trusts, collaborative procurement organisations, Department of Health and its arms length bodies, including NHS Supply Chain and the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHS PASA). It also indicates our intentions to suppliers with whom we work, staff we employ and the patients to whom we provide services and care.
Procuring the Future, the report of the Sustainable Procurement Task Force (SPTF), was published in June 2006. It addressed the challenge of how to use the Government’s immense buying power to make progress towards both sustainability and efficiency and in doing so achieve the goal for the UK to be among the European Union leaders in sustainable procurement by 2009. The health and social care sector were seen as key players, along with central government and local government.
Sustainable procurement is defined as a process whereby organisations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a whole life basis in terms of generating benefits not only to the organisation, but also to a society and the economy, while minimising damage to the environment.
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