October 23rd and 24th, 2024 - These two days in Turin were rich with exchanges and laid the foundation for exciting new initiatives on strategic topics. Big things are on the horizon for EHPPA and its members, with many promising projects underway.
May 7th, 2024 - Resah and MercurHosp have signed an innovative partnership, giving Belgian hospitals affiliated to MercurHosp access to the Resah catalogue.
April 15th and 16th, 2024 - In Oslo, EHPPA members discussed value-based procurement, innovation, category management, sustainability, and planned future collaborations. Upcoming initiatives include a Workshop on Sustainability and Social Value and internal webinars. The assembly was productive, with many exciting initiatives ahead.
Procure4Health is looking for public & private healthcare procurers to support experiences and lessons learnt exchange !
Health InnoFacilitator is launching a call for applications from public procurers working in health and social care who are interested in support services for the acquisition of innovative solutions. Applications are open until November 16th.
December, 19th and 20th, 2023 - In Paris, EHPPA members voted to re-elect Danny Havenith (MercurHosp) as President of the association, enabling the new Board of Directors to be formed. We also took the opportunity to discuss innovation and plan EHPPA's actions for the next mandate.
The healthcare procurement ecosystem is invited, as it was last year, to take part in the European Hospital Procurement Barometer organized by Resah in collaboration with EHPPA.
November 14th to 16th, 2023 - EHPPA - European Health Public Procurement Alliance members Resah, MercurHosp ASBL, Sykehusinnkjøp HF and Consorci de Salut i Social de Catalunya are in Murcia for 4 days to actively participate to the P4H Consortium Meeting and the Impactful Innovation Conference.
5th Value-Based Procurement Conference “Navigating the VBP challenges and reaching destination - from awareness to application” will be held on 11 December 2023.
Introducing the Healthcare Buyers Community initiated by an international consortium of 3 healthcare procurement organistions: EHPPA, Health Proc Europe and HealthPRO Canada. The Community is bringing together procurement professionals.
EHPPA defined a position paper and asks competent authorities for more interventions to secure supplies of medical devices and in-vitro devices.
We are pleased to officially announce the launch of the second Masterclass Hospital & Healthcare Procurement organised on 23-24 March 2023 in Zeist (the Netherlands).
In October 2022, the consultation to create the 1st European Hospital Procurement Barometer was launched by Resah (France), in collaboration with EHPPA and santé-achat.info. This first edition was a great success, it allowed to highlight some common issues and trend in the public procurement field.
November 23rd - 24th, 2022, the 21st General Assembly of the association took place in Barcelona – Spain, hosted by Consorci (CSC).
“European Healthcare Procurement Awards 2022”: the deadline for submissions has been extended until Friday 19th August 2022
You can now submit your candidature to win one of the “European Healthcare Procurement Awards 2022”!
From 30th March to 1st of April 2022, EHPPA members participated to 3 different events in Zeist, the Netherlands.
EHPPA was represented at the 3rd Value-Based Procurement Conference in Brussels.
Happy New Year 2022! Learn more about new and ongoing projects that EHPPA will be working on this year.
During the first Board following the elections at the General Assembly #18, the roles and responsabilies of the vice-presidents were defined.
The 18th General Assembly of EHPPA was held online on the 25th of November 2021. It was an occasion for the association to elect its new President and Board for the 2021 - 2023 mandate.
We are pleased to officially announce the launch of the Hospital and Healthcare Procurement Masterclass, a training co-developed between EHPPA, NEVI and Health Proc Europe.
The event report from the 2nd European Value-Based Procurement Conference is now available!
Aware of the importance to develop public procurement practices, the GPO Resah, in partnership with the VBP Community of Practice, has recently published its new guidebook entitled “Maîtriser le value based procurement, nouvelle technique d’achat”. The guidebook is now available in English!
The European Health Public Procurement Alliance is delighted to announce that two new members have joined the association in early 2019: the Catalan Health and Social Care Consortium (CSC) and Amgros.
The European Health Public Procurement Alliance is delighted to announce that after an unanimous vote during the 15th General Assembly a new member have joined the association in June 2020: AGKAMED.
2019 marked the first edition of the European Value-Based Procurement Conference organized by the Value-Based Procurement Community of Practice and supported by EUREGHA, MedTech Europe and EHPPA.
On 18 March 2020, the first European procurement cooperation meeting was held (online) between the EHPPA members, in presence of a European Commission representative.
Public procurement was established as a way of purchasing products that hospitals need. However, this one-dimensional view of procurement is changing very quickly. From humble beginnings as an obscure back-office function, I am pleased to say procurement is fast becoming a high-impact strategic partner for hospitals.
On 12 December 2019, more than 250 participants attended the 1st Value Based Procurement Conference in Brussels, organised by MedTech Europe and supported by EUREGHA and EHPPA.
On Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th October 2019, the 14th General Assembly of the EHPPA association was held in Barcelona in the premises of our Spanish member: Consorci.
The 1st European Value-Based Procurement Conference: A new paradigm in Health Care will be held on December 12, 2019 in Brussels.
On May 7th, 2019, following the invitation of the CAIB, the Swiss Central Purchasing Body of the EHPPA (Centrale d’achats d’ingéniérie biomédicale), the French GPO RESAH was visiting the logistics platform of University hospitals of Geneva and Lausanne.
The EHPPA association regrets to announce the cancellation of its EHPPA Days, initially scheduled for May 28th and 29th, 2019, at the Victory Services Club in London.
For the second year, the European Health Public Procurement Alliance organizes the EHPPA Days, which will be held at the Carisbrooke Hall at the Victory Services Club, London, on May 28th and 29th, 2019.
October 17th, 2018 - the members of the European Healthcare Public Procurement Alliance were gathered in Torino to participate to the 12th General Assembly of the association, which was held the premises of S.C.R. Piemonte, the Italian partner of the association.
The European Health Public Procurement Alliance is delighted to announce a new member: the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU).
Tuesday March 20th, the members of the European Healthcare Public Procurement Alliance were gathered in Lisbon to participate to the 11th General Assembly of the association.
On September 28th & 29th 2017, CCI France International and EHPPA organized the first edition of the "EHPPA Days", a European Forum for Health Procurement of Innovation, in Paris. Find the report of the event.
In order to facilitate the access to the EHPPA Days - European Forum for Procurement of Healthcare Innovation - to the small companies, EHPPA has defined a special discounted rate for Start-Ups.
EHPPA signed a framework agreement with Novation, one of the leading American GPOs.
