The Strategic Stock are intended to serve as shared inventories in which the hospital pharmacies and Amgros can jointly hold selected medicines.
The underlying principle is to adopt a strategic approach to all medicines and to use strategic stockpiles as one of several tools to improve the supply and availability of medicines for Denmark's public hospitals.
In addition to the shared strategic stockpiles, the regional hospital pharmacies continue to maintain their own inventories. These complement the strategic stockpiles by typically holding medicines to meet local requirements.
When we talk about medicine inventories for hospitals today, they should therefore be seen as part of a broader storage network. This includes both our shared strategic stockpiles and the inventories maintained by the regional hospital pharmacies and our suppliers.
Each plays an important role in the complex task of ensuring a reliable supply of medicines for patients in Denmark's public hospitals.
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Procurement and supply
Amgros informs the hospital pharmacies when we have set up an agreement to purchase a pharmaceutical. After this, hospital pharmacies send their purchase orders to the supplier
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Back orders
Back orders of pharmaceuticals is a growing challenge globally. The problem arises if a supplier cannot meet demand from hospital pharmacies.
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