The opposite thought and advice for the price policy of centralized purchasing in national essential drugs
doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-0111.2014.04.019
- Received Date: 2012-12-27
- Rev Recd Date: 2013-05-29
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Key words:
- national essential drugs /
- centralized purchasing /
- price policy, opposite thought /
Abstract: Objective To analysis the major problems and the causes in the process of centralized purchasing of national essential drugs, and to give some effective solutions according to the price problems for ensuring the quality and regular supply of national essential drugs, decrease patients burden effectively and safeguard the medication safety of patients. Methods The implementation of centralized purchasing of national essential drugs was investigated, the problems which were major and outstanding were analyzed to find out the internal causes and the effective solutions were given. Results The progression of centralized purchasing of national essential drugs was successfully in general.The implementation of the principle of winning of the bidding with the lowest bid price lead to excessive low price, which caused some problems such as lower quality or bad supplied of some national essential drugs. Conclusion The price policy of centralized purchasing of national essential drugs should not be instituted based on the lower price, more winning of biddings.It needed more scientific and overall perspective thoughts.It maybe solve the problems mentioned above by winning of the bidding with the lowest bid price in the interval average price, appropriately loosing the control of difference rate with the results of decreasing the drug price, avoiding cut-throat competition, ensuring the quality and supply of drugs, lightening the patients' burden, releasing the problem of high cost of getting medical treatment.
Citation: | PEI Zejun, SUN Xin. The opposite thought and advice for the price policy of centralized purchasing in national essential drugs[J]. Journal of Pharmaceutical Practice and Service, 2014, 32(4): 304-306. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-0111.2014.04.019 |