Hybrid model: a promising type of public procurement in the healthcare sector of the European Union.

ABSTRACT: The management of health supplies in public hospitals has been a major concern of national and European institutions over time, often being a field of reforms and regulatory interventions. Health procurement systems constitute complex decision-making and supply chain management mechanisms of public hospitals, involving suppliers, health providers, administrators and political bodies. Due to this complexity, the first important decision to be taken when designing a procurement system, concerns the degree of centralization, namely to what extent the decision-making power on the healthcare procurement (what, how and when) will be transferred either to a central public authority established for this purpose, or to the competent local authorities. In this perspective, we attempt to analyse the

SUBMITTER: Geropoulos N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10902422 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature