Purchasing Health Care
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Purchasing Health Care |
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Other Views by this Author: |
kraljic can be sucessfully and usefully applied to assess a health care market.For some time I have relied on Porters Five Forces to analyse and assess comeptitive behaviour in the new and traditional health care markets. On this occasion the adoption of the Kraljic Model allowed for a fuller understanding of the interdependance of suppliers between and across the matrix, showing how current commissioning decisions in health were influenced by dyadic and in some instances triadic interdependance that now requires a more sophisticated procurement response, than that which has been offered; and without which the efforts put into transformational planning could be reduced to transpositional changes based more on the transfer of property rights. New forms of ownership are increasingly less democratic and social in their nature and can distort participatory process and lose sight of meeting the requisite variety of patient need. The paper titled WCC- A critical Examination of Procurement suggests ways to mitigate this risk, while the document Rethinking Relationships summaries the main key note messages from a category sourcing exercise that applied the kraljic matrix as part of a transformational plan. At a time when health care remains one of the most contested public service area's I suspect that the task of making sense of the inherent complexities seems alittle obtuse and abstract, it is my view that new conceptual models are needed more than ever. The work posted here is an attempt do this. |
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