The Community of Practice on Sustainability in Healthcare Procurement builds on the foundation of the finalized EU project Procure4Health (P4H) and aims to create lasting frameworks for sustainable procurement across Europe.
This collaborative initiative brings together healthcare purchasers and industry to co-develop consensus-based sustainability criteria, with a current focus on medical devices.
Sustainable procurement goes beyond environmental concerns. It encompasses economic, social, and environmental value, encouraging purchasing decisions that balance cost-efficiency, long-term outcomes, and system-wide impact. It prioritizes overall value not just the lowest price by promoting responsible sourcing, reducing waste, and ensuring that procurement decisions contribute positively to patient care, workforce wellbeing, and public health.
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Community of Practice (CoP) Sustainability in Healthcare Procurement
By embedding sustainability into procurement strategies, healthcare systems can:
Improve patient outcomes
Enhance system resilience
Build ethical, low-carbon supply chains
Reduce inefficiencies and long-term costs
Align purchasing with broader health and climate goals
The Community of Practice provides a platform for sharing knowledge, tools, and real-world practices to help organizations move from commitment to implementation in sustainable healthcare procurement.
Advisory Board and Supporting Objectives
Launch the initiative and ensure alignment with its strategic goals
Endorse and validate the overall project plan
Review and approve key milestones and deliverables
Promote standardized, evidence-based, actionable sustainability criteria for healthcare procurement
Foster collaboration between procurement bodies, suppliers, and expert partners
Enable the adoption of tools, templates, and case studies that support the most sustainable tendering
Ensure all outcomes are publicly accessible and compliant with EU procurement directives
Advocate for shared understanding of sustainability across Member States and a level playing field for economic operators in view of the revision of the Public Procurement Directive
Sustainability in Healthcare Procurement
Sustainability in healthcare means ensuring that health systems can continue to deliver value over time — economically, clinically, socially, and environmentally. In the context of procurement, sustainability includes:
Financial Sustainability
Making purchasing decisions that balance cost-efficiency with long-term value and system-wide impact.
Sustainable Value
Procuring goods and services that support better outcomes for patients, health systems and health workforce in the long term compared to the resources spent — not just lowest cost, but best overall value.
Environmental & Social Responsibility
Considering environmental impact, ethical sourcing, and supplier practices in decision-making.
Our members only spaces
CoP Community Hub
A collaborative hub for exchanging ideas, asking questions, and accessing practical resources.
CoP Advisory Board
Exclusive collaboration Hub for the Steering Committee Members only.
About Community of Practice (CoP) : Sustainability in Healthcare Procurement, its Core Pillars and Impact
Co-create sustainable tender criteria
Enable co-creation of sustainable tender criteria by buyers and suppliers through collaborative working groups.
Internal best practice sharing within CoP + active external engagement across Europe for growth and innovation
Align procurement practices with policy
Support EU plans to foster competitiveness by linking procurement to sustainability strategies.
Build a trusted community
Connect buyers, suppliers, and advisors to foster lasting, solution-oriented exchange.
Building on Strong Foundations
Joint efforts among healthcare procurers, suppliers, and sustainability partners.
3-Year Program Outlook
Year 1: Co-Development of a joint commitment
Year 2: Developing practical tools and criteria
🔹TBDYear 3: Enabling adoption and scale
🔹TBD
WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE?
More tenders that apply sustainability criteria in line with EU priorities
Widespread access to practical tools, draft criteria, and best practice cases
Increased collaboration between buyers, suppliers, and advisors during tender design
Want to collaborate with us?
Please reach out to Health Proc Europe.
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