HealthPRO Canada Unveils Playbook to Strengthen Healthcare Supply Chain Against Growing Disruption Risks
07 Octubre 2024 - 12:28PM
HealthPRO Canada is taking action to protect Canadians from the
growing threat of healthcare supply chain disruptions that lead to
shortages of critical medications and medical supplies.
In honour of National Health Care Supply Chain Week, HealthPRO
Canada is launching the Healthcare Supply Chain Playbook – Ready or
Not: Building Collective Resiliency to Navigate the Next Disruption
– offering practical strategies to mitigate disruptions and build
greater collective resiliency.
“Maintaining a strong healthcare supply chain is essential to
make sure patients and providers have access to quality medical
supplies, devices, and medications when they need them,” said
Christine Donaldson, President and CEO, HealthPRO Canada. “Our
Playbook provides proactive solutions and best practices to help
our member healthcare facilities, suppliers and government partners
head off potential threats to our supply chain before they can
happen.”
The risk of disruptions to the national and global healthcare
supply chain is increasing due to a mix of contributing factors,
including natural disasters tied to climate change, labour strikes,
and economic crises.To guard against this growing threat, HealthPRO
Canada’s Healthcare Supply Chain Playbook recommends proactive
strategies in three key categories – information sharing,
contracting and problem-solving.
Protecting the healthcare supply chain from disruptions will
require local, domestic and international organizations to increase
collaboration and share data with each other more freely.
“Creating a truly resilient supply chain isn’t something any
single organization can do on its own,” said Donaldson.
“Organizations across the supply chain will have to rethink how we
work together to enable safe, high-quality, uninterrupted patient
care.”
HealthPRO Canada is grateful for input received from healthcare
providers, manufacturers, suppliers, group purchasing
organizations, and government representatives across Canada and
Europe to develop the Playbook.
To get your copy of HealthPRO Canada’s Healthcare Supply Chain
Playbook, please
visit https://www.healthprocanada.com/article/ready-or-not-download-the-healthcare-supply-chain-playbook-1.About
HealthPRO CanadaHealthPRO Canada connects healthcare teams to
the supplies and solutions they need to care for Canadians.
HealthPRO Canada is a leader in procurement – the complex process
of sourcing and contracting for what is vital in the delivery of
quality healthcare.
A trusted partner in Canada’s healthcare supply chain for more
than 25 years,HealthPRO Canada facilitates and manages modern,
innovative and sustainable contracts for supplies, equipment and
medications.
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Jennifer Potvin
HealthPRO Canada
jpotvin@healthprocanada.com