Strengthening pharmaceutical product management and perfecting pharmaceutical product bidding system
Firstly, improving the procurement method. Conduct online procurement for pharmaceutical products with sufficient competition produced by many enterprises, and conduct multiparty negotiation mechanism for patented drugs, pharmaceutical products exclusively produced or drugs with insufficient competition. Appointed enterprises shall be required to produce the pharmaceutical products that are essential to clinic but with a very small quantity, and have to be produced though the quantity will be excessive after production. This system is now under continuous exploration.
Secondly, improving the pharmaceutical product supply mechanism, reducing intermediate circulation links and lowering the cost of circulation links.
Thirdly, actively exploring to gradually incorporate pharmaceutical product procurement into the national unified resource exchange platform for openness and transparency, record bad behaviors and investigate behaviors violating laws and rules.
Fourthly, further enhancing transparency of pharmaceutical product procurement. The current public hospital reform is not fully implemented and so divided into two parts: one part implementing reform allows municipal hospitals to conduct secondary bidding; the other part not implementing reform shall be implemented as soon as possible to conduct unified bidding.
Perfecting the management of the essential drug list
Perfect the management of the essential drug list. The essential drug list is gradually expanded, with now about 520 varieties， and selects three parts: chemical pharmaceutical product, biological product and Chinese patent medicine (including TCM decoction pieces) for common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases, major public health service projects, serious disease control and creation of major new drugs. The essential drug list with 520 varieties is adjusted every three years to ensure meeting the needs of medical service and patients and to reduce self-pay proportion of patients to some extent.
