It is inevitable that the advantages of centralized drug purchase should be highlighted and the system should be improved

Improving the centralized drug purchase system is a task that the health and Family Planning Commission must accomplish, because the system has many advantages: first, it can reduce the false high price, through price competition and price negotiation, "quantity for price", effectively reduce the burden of drug costs; Second, it can effectively curb the unhealthy practices and corruption in the field of drug purchase and sale, cut off the interest chain between medical institutions and drugs from the mechanism; third, it is in line with the experience at home and abroad, the implementation of centralized drug purchase is the common practice in most countries, and China has also accumulated experience through the centralized purchase of basic drugs Therefore, the opinions put forward to reform and improve the centralized drug procurement method The drugs used by county-level public hospitals should rely on the provincial centralized drug procurement platform, take the province (District, city) as the unit, and carry out centralized bidding procurement in accordance with the principles of quality priority and reasonable price, such as integration of bidding and procurement, quantity price hook, double envelope system, etc In the aspect of drug distribution, in principle, the winning enterprise shall entrust the drug handling enterprise with distribution or direct distribution by itself, so as to reduce the circulation links and standardize the circulation order In terms of fund payment, the provincial health and family planning and financial departments are responsible for supervising the payment of goods and severely investigating and punishing the delayed payment In the process of improving the centralized drug purchase system, we need to enhance the participation of medical institutions; encourage cross provincial joint bidding procurement, ensure the quality and safety of drugs, effectively reduce the price of drugs, and effectively curb the corruption and unhealthy practices in the field of drug purchase and sale