LONDON – One in five suppliers to the NHS is at high risk of employing modern slavery, according to a new review of around 600,000 products including about 30,000 cotton-based items.
The ‘Review of the risk of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the NHS supply chain’ was carried out by NHS England and NHS Supply Chain for the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care.
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