Slavery and human trafficking
NHS Blood and Transplant slavery and human trafficking statement
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) fully supports the Government objective to eliminate modern slavery and human trafficking.
Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. All types of modern slavery have in common the deprivation of a person’s liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.
NHSBT are committed to acting ethically and with integrity to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere within NHSBT, or in any of our supply chains.
NHSBT procurement buys c. £120m of goods and services annually. Procurement is accountable for all non-pay expenditure and its role is to enable the organisation to obtain best value for money.
How do we support this?
We value the people that work for us
- We follow the NHS Employment Check Standards when recruiting including confirming the identities of all new employees and their right to work in the United Kingdom.
- We pay our employees above the National Living Wage.
- Our Dignity at Work, Grievance and Whistle-blowing policies provide a platform for our employees to raise concerns about poor working practices.
We ensure confidence in our supply chain
- Procurement ensures supplier compliance of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 by using mandatory exclusion questions during the supplier selection stage.
- We apply NHS Terms and Conditions, when awarding contracts, and this requires suppliers to comply with the relevant legislation.
- The Procurement team are aware of the Modern Slavery Act, through the Procurement Procedures Manual, and can raise issues or concerns to management.
- We ensure supplier compliance with the relevant legislation throughout the whole-life of contract through its contract reviews process.
