Analysis of the high value medical consumables procurement in foreign countries and its inspi-ration to China / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

The main intention of this paper is to propose suggestions for optimizing China 's high-value medical consumables centralized procurement .In this paper , we have analyzed the developed countries 'best practices in high-value medical consumables procurement from the perspectives of procurement principle ( s), key procurement bodies, procurement patterns, supervision, and management.The results of our analysis show that “Value for mon-ey” is the core principle in procurement and hospital route , national/regional centralized route ( s) , and group pur-chase organization ( GPO) route are four primary procurement patterns in foreign countries .Procurement management is optimized through improving product coding system and encouraging health technology assessment ( HTA) and clin-ical practitioners'involvement in procurement decision-making.In that perspective, it's been suggested that China's high-value medical consumables centralized procurement could be improved from three aspectsreferring partial HTA indicators so as to enhance tender evaluation and realize value-based purchasing;establishing a standard and unified coding system for medical devices;introducing GPO route and make market surveillance mechanism into full play .