GSK Australia works with a wide range of community organisations across a variety of different disease areas such as cancer, asthma, diabetes, HIV and mental health.

We share a vision with these organisations for a healthcare system that provides the best standard of care for preventing, treating and managing disease and ensures people living with an illness have timely access to the most effective treatments, services and information available.

Our objective is to understand people’s needs and their illnesses, raise awareness of a disease area, support the voice of people living with an illness and foster constructive healthcare debate. This is achieved through working together on prevention or disease awareness programs or developing joint policies or guidelines.

GSK’s Guiding Principles for Working with Community Organisations

• The independence of community organisations is assured
• Transparency is vital
• Relationships must be based on trust and mutual respect
• We aim to develop sustained, mutually beneficial, long-term working relationships
• GSK will always comply with local laws and ethical standards

We are committed to working with community organisations with the highest level of transparency and ethical standards. The key principles of our work with community organisations are underpinned by trust and mutual respect.

We are committed to sustaining long-term working relationships, which reinforce the credibility and independence of these groups. To ensure common understandings and transparency, a written agreement outlining the conditions and outcomes of our support is developed in consultation with the community organisation.

More about our guiding principles….

As part of a move to ensure greater transparency in all our external dealings with organisations and individuals, from 2008 GlaxoSmithKline will list all community organisations to which we provide financial support on our external website. This includes details of that support to an individual project level.