Sustainable procurement in health and social care in Northern Ireland

Public Money and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 363-370

  Erridge, Andrew ^a   Hennigan, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficiency; health and social care; sustainable procurement; whole life costing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863451412     PISSN: 09540962     EISSN: 14679302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2012.703422     Document Type: Article

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