HSV Purchasing Policies and Transition
HealthShare Victoria Purchasing Policies and Transition
The five HSV Purchasing Policies (HSV PPs) outline a number of requirements for health services relating to their procurement functions, including ongoing reporting obligations.
Amendments to the HSV PPs were approved by the HSV Board in October 2022 with a transition effective date of 1 January 2023 to 1 January 2024.
Click here to view the HSV Purchasing Policies Victorian Government Gazette Notice
Schedule 1 and 5 health services identified within the Health Services Act 1988 (Vic) (The Act) must fully transition by 1 January 2024.
Transition Period
Health services have a twelve-month transition period to align to the revised HSV PPs. Health services can begin transitioning to the new HSV PPs from 1 January 2023, although compliance will not be expected until 1 January 2024.
The Self-Assessment scheduled for the 2022-2023 financial year and due 31 May 2023 is aligned to the new HSV PPs to help health services to complete a gap analysis and to assist in the transition.
HSV Purchasing Policies - effective 1 January 2024
HSV Purchasing Policies 2023 key changes
HSV has created a summary of key changes to the Health Purchasing Policies.
The CPU Purchasing Policy
The CPU Purchasing Policy, initiated by the Department of Health (DH) and administered by HSV, requires each of the health services named in the policy to purchase its pre-prepared patient food from one of two Central Production Units (CPUs) at Austin Health and Monash Health.
2017 Health Purchasing Policies and resources
The 2017 Health Purchasing Policies will be revoked and replaced as of 1 January 2024.
Links to the 2017 Health Purchasing Policies and related documents are available below for health services.
HPP2: Procurement strategic analysis
HPP4: Contract management and asset disposal
Schedule to HPP5 collective purchasing for SPC and SEPC mandated contracts