Table 3. COO of top 100 medical consumables (with four items excluded as per the main text description) by spend in the financial year April 2018-April 2019 supplied to Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust by annual spend (termed value of contracts, value in British Pounds, £) and ITUC rating.
In this dataset, for products of ‘multiple’ COOs, the highest ITUC-rated country is used to represent the product. COO is mapped to the 2019 ITUC country rating for labour rights risk [14], with ITUC rating 4, 5, or 5+ equated with a high-risk of labour rights abuse. Note: Malta and the European Community are not included in ITUC 2019 ratings, so the ITUC rating is listed as 'not recorded'
COO: country of origin, ITUC: International Trade Union Confederation
| COO | Number of products with COO | Summed value of contracts (£) | Proportion of total value (%) | ITUC rating (2019) |
| Unknown | 26 | 3,713,620 | 27.0 | - |
| Mexico | 14 | 2,179,449 | 15.9 | 5 |
| USA | 12 | 1,981,895 | 14.4 | 4 |
| China | 7 | 1,126,414 | 8.2 | 5 |
| Switzerland | 6 | 734,879 | 5.4 | 2 |
| Ireland | 3 | 546,343 | 4.0 | 1 |
| Malta | 1 | 506,225 | 3.7 | Not recorded |
| Malaysia | 4 | 414,604 | 3.0 | 4 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 323,040 | 2.4 | 2 |
| Germany | 3 | 272,188 | 2.0 | 1 |
| Dominican Republic | 2 | 247,268 | 1.8 | 2 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 212,132 | 1.5 | 4 |
| Israel | 1 | 211,000 | 1.5 | 2 |
| France | 1 | 197,496 | 1.4 | 2 |
| Estonia | 2 | 182,710 | 1.3 | 2 |
| UK | 2 | 172,159 | 1.3 | 3 |
| Spain | 2 | 165,044 | 1.2 | 2 |
| European Community | 2 | 158,842 | 1.2 | Not recorded |
| India | 1 | 92,964 | 0.7 | 5 |
| Australia | 1 | 85,260 | 0.6 | 3 |
| Singapore | 1 | 79,200 | 0.6 | 2 |
| Canada | 1 | 72,964 | 0.5 | 2 |
| Japan | 1 | 68,536 | 0.5 | 2 |
| Grand total | 96 | 13,744,239 | 100 |