In Sardinia we are moving quickly towards the single hub of the drug. The procedure for entrusting the integrated logistics service and the distribution of medicines and medical devices to the structures of the health companies has already been started by the Region. A tender, with a total estimated value of 55.6 million euros, is divided into a single lot for the assignment of the management of the service for five years, with the possibility of an extension for a further two years.
Expressions of interest can be sent until May 3rd.
"We are talking about a service that Sardinia has been waiting for almost seven years and that can now finally become a reality", says Governor Christian Solinas. "What we are going to introduce - he underlines - is a virtuous management model, more efficient, which responds to innovative standards capable of producing economies of scale and thus optimizing resources, with positive repercussions throughout the territory".
"Today - adds Mario Nieddu, regional health councilor - medicines purchased for use in hospitals, clinics, points of continuity of care or for distribution to chronic patients are stored in a large number of warehouses, hospital pharmacies, pharmaceutical services and distribution points, with an evident duplication of all procurement procedures. The current organization absorbs considerable human, instrumental and economic resources ". While “the rationalization of the logistics of medicines through the single hub, according to the consolidated experiences in other Regions, has brought important savings. This means more resources available which will be reinvested in our health system ".
The relations between the health companies and the person to whom the hub service will be entrusted will have the regional health authority (Ares) as the only contact person.
Whoever wins the contract will have to make available two dedicated facilities (hubs) covering an area of 10 thousand square meters, one to the north and the other to the south of the island, equipped with all the technologies necessary to perform the function of centralized warehouses .
The announcement also includes the provision for which the manager deals entirely with "all aspects related to the transport of drugs and devices to the hospital and pharmaceutical, territorial and district departments of companies in the regional health system, as well as the technological aspects related to information systems and IT support to the management of the logistic process (such as request, warehouse and delivery) and its tracking in real time, in addition to the operational and training technical support to the staff of the single point of contact, Ares ".
(Unioneonline / ss)