EHPPA
EHPPA - European Health Public Procurement Alliance is a non-profit organisation that represents a network of Group Procurement Organisations (GPOs). Its primary objective is to provide its members with a strategic position in the European health procurement market by pooling their expertise, leveraging their performance, and promoting collaboration among members.
EHPPA has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the healthcare public procurement sector, making it well-placed to support the Healthcare Buyers Community. The organisation's members comprise some of the most significant players in the European health procurement market, giving EHPPA a broad network of contacts and resources.
One of EHPPA’s key strengths is its expertise in health procurement policy and regulation. EHPPA members are subject to strict European public procurement regulations and many have extensive experience in navigating the procurement landscape. As a result, EHPPA can provide valuable guidance and support to the Healthcare Buyers Community in navigating this complex regulatory environment, while supporting our shared goals of innovation, collaboration, and sustainability.
As an accomplished healthcare management professional, the Chairman of EHPPA, Danny Havenith has over 15 years of experience in the sector. Throughout his career, he has consistently demonstrated his ability to lead high-performing teams as hospital CEO and organisations, including MercurHosp ASBL, the central procurement body of Wallonian & Brussels Hospitals, where he is currently General Manager.
Reviewing the lessons of the Covid crisis and drawing the right conclusions: that's what public procurement bodies have set themselves for the years 2020 to 2022. Within EHPPA, the 12 members from 11 different countries place great emphasis on the exchange of experience and the professionalization of their sector.
It's true that we're all subject to the European Public Procurement Act for the healthcare sector; it's a single law for all EU member states. The sector is obliged to go through this public procurement obligation. And despite this single law, there are so many different approaches, so much different case law. And yet, the sector needs the same molecules, the same devices, the same equipment, etc., most of which are offered by global healthcare players. This is where the exchange of experience within EHPPA comes in handy!
But in addition to this day-to-day work, the challenges of the future are also on EHPPA's agenda: integrating sustainability criteria into public procurement contracts to help get closer to the Green Deal, professionally securing supply chains and delivery conditions, integrating the idea of value-based healthcare and patient experience, bringing industry innovation into facilities as impacted input that passes through buyers, confronting data interpretation and Artificial Intelligence in general....
This and much more is what makes EHPPA and its members so dynamic.
And many of them are involved in European projects to give a concrete, common structure to all these challenges.
Connected with all our founding organisations - EHPPA, HealthPRO Canada and Health Proc Europe Association on the Healthcare Buyers Community.