Shandong's first trans regional drug purchase consortium was established, with the lowest price in China of 80% of the first purchased drugs

Source: medical representative may 10, 2018, recently Jinan, Qingdao and Weihai, Shandong Province established a cross regional public hospital drug procurement consortium and completed the first procurement, of which about 80% of the drugs reached the lowest level in the country The reporter learned from Jinan health and family planning commission that Jinan, Qingdao and Weihai have recently established a cross regional public hospital drug procurement consortium and completed the first procurement This is the first cross regional public hospital drug procurement consortium in our province A total of 71 products were purchased through negotiation for the first time, with a 21.3% reduction compared with the provincial online price About 80% of the drugs reached the lowest level in China In recent years, the price of drugs has increased greatly It is difficult for medical institutions to negotiate the price of drugs alone There are some phenomena such as drug shortage and lack of drugs in clinical practice In February last year, the general office of the State Council issued several opinions on further reform and improvement of drug production, circulation and use policies, proposing to further improve the participation of medical institutions in centralized drug procurement and encourage cross regional and specialized hospital joint procurement Guo Daodao, director of the basic drug administration department of Jinan health and Family Planning Commission, commented on the results of this round of purchase price negotiation: "there are more hospitals involved, more purchases, and stronger bargaining power of cross regional consortiums." Among the member units of the consortium, there are 39 in Jinan, 33 in Qingdao and 15 in Weihai, including Shandong Provincial Hospital, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, qianfushan Hospital of Shandong Province and Affiliated Hospital of Qingda These hospitals have a large amount of drugs for clinical use, which can give full play to the advantages of volume bargaining and achieve the purpose of reducing drug prices The uniform drug price is one of the characteristics of this joint procurement According to the requirements, all regions distribute the basic medical institutions at the same price to meet the needs of the basic medical institutions, achieving the same price in three cities, and the same price in large hospitals and basic medical institutions In addition to reducing drug prices, ensuring supply is also the core purpose of cross regional joint procurement in our province According to Yan Genquan, an expert in purchase price negotiation and professor of Pharmacy Department of Shandong Provincial Hospital, most of the 71 kinds of drugs are online products, including non patent drugs for women and children's specialty, emergency (rescue) drugs and commonly used low-cost drugs, all of which are "critical disaster areas" where supply problems often occur - high price, low price, untimely supply or even interruption of supply seriously affect clinical drug safety In order to ensure the continuous supply of life-saving drugs and cheap drugs, the consortium signed a contract with drug manufacturers in this procurement, stipulating that drug companies need to guarantee the supply of the traded products within one year, without any interruption of supply, price fluctuation, etc In recent years, there have been many pharmaceutical and consumable purchasing alliances in China, such as Sanming alliance, Beijing Tianjin Hebei integration, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Fujian "four provinces and one city", Guangdong and Hubei According to expert analysis, cross regional joint procurement will become the main trend of drug procurement in public hospitals in the future.