Modern Slavery

KFM provides a fully managed service across all clinical areas which includes providing all required clinical supplies and equipment along with maintenance, training and technical support, endoscopy decontamination, sterile services, renal dialysis support, outpatients’ pharmacy, radiology IT, transformation and project management. KFM also runs a procurement and contract management service for all departments.

KFM has an annual turnover of around £150m and c300 staff.

KFM takes a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery and is committed to eradicating modern slavery from its business and supply chain.

KFM has a number of policies in place designed to counter modern slavery within our organisation, which include:

All procurement and contracting staff are furthermore required to acknowledge a professional code of ethics. During FY21, KFM put in place a corporate Modern Slavery Policy, which is designed to spell out KFM’s formal policy position on modern slavery and determines appropriate controls for countering modern slavery in our business and supply chains.

Recently, we approved our first Supplier Code of Conduct, which bans our suppliers from making use of modern slavery, in addition to prohibiting child labour.

KFM recruitment and people management processes are designed to ensure that all prospective employees are legally entitled to work in the UK and to safeguard employees from any abuse or coercion once in our employment.

A key indicator that a person is not acting of his own free will in an employment situation include lack of access to his passport / immigration documents and being deprived of his wages by another person. To mitigate against this, all employees are at the point of recruitment required to present their passports and right-to-work documents, and salaries will only be paid into a bank account which is held in their name.

In April 2021, KFM’s new e-sourcing and SRM system went live, which will further enhance our capability for auditing and assessing the effectiveness of upstream supply chain controls.

In addition to existing controls, KFM’s Modern Slavery Policy requires modern slavery to be considered as part of a risk-based approach during the entire contract lifecycle, including the pre-procurement and category plan development, tendering, selection, award and post-award stages.

– Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

– Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccuracies in your data.

– Erasure: You have the right to request the deletion of your data where there is no lawful reason for us to continue processing it.

– Restriction: You can request that we restrict the processing of your data under certain circumstances.

– Objection: You have the right to object to our processing of your data, where our legal basis is legitimate interests.

– Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used format and to transfer it to another data controller.

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