11th Annual Conference
PASA Health & Aged Care
Procurement Conference
The challenges facing procurement in the health and aged care sector in 2026-2027
DATE
3-4 June 2026
VENUE
Doltone House Darling Island Wharf,
Sydney
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
A Carefully Crafted Programme.
A thoughtfully designed agenda featuring keynotes, panel discussions, case studies and strategic networking opportunities.
DAY ONE
Pre-event coffee, networking and vendor exhibition
Welcome to The Health & Aged Care Procurement Conference 2026 at a new venue - Doltone House, Darling Island Wharf, Sydney
Welcome to The Health & Aged Care Procurement Conference 2026 at a new venue - Doltone House, Darling Island Wharf, Sydney
Argon & Co. are working with a wide range of providers of care from Hospitals to GP clinics in the Healthcare industry across ANZ, SE Asia, and the Pacific islands. There is a growing emphasis on financial stability, community wrap around care, digital health innovations, and data-driven decision-making – so what can and should procurement leaders in the health sector be doing to help both now and in future?
The sector’s core challenge isn’t just meeting the demand for beds but rather it’s financial investability: without sustainable financial returns, the construction of new beds and the significant refurbishment of existing beds won’t happen at the scale required to meet the demand.
Indeed, the best-performing financial quartile in the StewartBrown Aged Care Financial Performance Survey isn’t “lucky”, they operationalise financial discipline that others can learn from and follow.
Reform is moving fast, but the data lags, so today is about what the benchmarks already tell us, and what procurement can do immediately to assist to reduce risk and improve financial sustainability.
Following the amalgamation of the roles of CPO at NSW Health and the Director role at HealthShare NSW, the new Executive Director is developing the strategy to deliver broader value from the supply-side to all the stakeholders of NSW Health.
The health sector is asking procurement to do more than ever — delivering cost outcomes, managing supply risk, and meeting rising governance expectations, all with the same or fewer resources.
Drawing on real transformation experience at Wesfarmers Health, this session shares how adaptability – in people, process, and technology – is the key to unlocking procurement's full potential as a strategic partner in health.
Mecwacare Head of Hotel Services, and former chef, Dineshkumar Subramani, led the recent initiative to overhaul their ordering and procurement process across 22 aged care facilities.
But, he did this by using food ordering software FoodByUs as the new backbone of their operation – not just through better buying or negotiation with suppliers. This brought a range of other tangible ancillary benefits to the F&B category and to the organisation as a whole, including improving resident care.
Dinesh explains the process, learnings and just how it all works in practice, in an open conversation with FoodByUs Co-founder + CEO, Ben Lipschitz.
The entire health care industry is working hard to adapt to ever higher standards, rising costs and fresh stakeholder demands – affecting both critical and non-critical primary care as well as aged care operations:
Today, procurement in this sector is taking on much wider responsibilities, delivering broader value and achieving more than ever before.Estia Health has been leading the evolving nature of procurement in this sector – hear exactly how, for the benefit of both residents and other stakeholders.
Value based procurement (VBP) has been a positive trend in the UK NHS particularly since the pandemic. Illustrated case studies from the UK show how it works in practice –
- Recognising the need for ‘value’
- How to create value beyond price in healthcare
- Turning theory into practice – Examples of Value Based Procurement in action
- Where to start ….
Could VBP this be the key to generating the sort of savings levels that both short and long term healthcare so desperately need?
Introduced live in Sydney by Debra Birznieks, Education Officer
The procurement of medical consumables is common to all health providers in all segments of the healthcare sector both large and small – yet, is a category just as affected by the same longer term trends as all the others, such as rising standards, an aging population and a keen focus on cost –v- value. All meaning that this category, like many others, has to adapt.
Increasingly purchasing aged care specific consumables, relevant to NDIS providers and aged care facilities at all levels, this category now includes high-churn examples such as incontinence products, enteral nutrition products and skin care items. HealthShare NSW reveal their approach to medical consumables and how to get the best outcomes from the category in the face of fast growing needs.
The Australia and New Zealand Health Procurement Roundtable (ANZHPR) is a member-driven forum for senior public health procurement leaders to collaborate across jurisdictions. Run by the APCC in Canberra, ANZHPR offers peer networking, shared intelligence, and priority working groups to tackle procurement and supply chain challenges efficiently. By reducing duplication and building capability, ANZHPR promotes best practice and value. In 2026, it will refresh its strategy to focus on supply chain improvements and collective advocacy for a sustainable health sector.
Event cocktails & refreshments at the PASA ‘Happy Hour’ with open networking opportunities until dusk …
DAY TWO
Pre-event coffee, networking and vendor exhibition
Welcome back to the 11th Annual PASA Health & Aged Care Procurement Conference 2026 - DAY TWO
In an environment where standards rise and budgets are tightening, adaptability becomes your greatest strategic asset.
Learn how UnitingCare Queensland’s Procurement team strengthened resilience and partnered innovatively with stakeholders and suppliers to embed practical tools and smarter delivery models - while sharing actionable strategies which may also help you to help you become the agile procurement professional your organisation relies on.
How a key AGED CARE client leverages their spend across the full range of the consumables category to achieve clear ESG targets across multiple spend lines - Ruchi Renavikar the Sustainability Manager at Regis Aged Care, in conversation with Bunzl health sector manager, Mark Paterson.
When procurement teams are small but responsibility is high, the temptation can be to over-prescribe procurement technology in the hope it solves everything. But more functionality doesn’t always mean better outcomes.
In this practical five-minute session, we’ll outline five key evaluation questions in 5 minutes to help health and aged care organisations determine the "right size" of procurement technology to ensure improved compliance, spend control and reporting, without overwhelming teams or budgets.
The Australian the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), which became a statutory independent agency on 1 January 2026, is approaching a consultation phase of developing new national health system guidelines on green procurement and sustainable resource use.
These guidelines will seek to align with international efforts to decarbonise the health system supply chain, including the UK NHS Supplier Roadmap, to best enable both buyers and suppliers in the health and aged care sectors to achieve climate change targets following the introduction of mandatory emissions, and climate risk and opportunities reporting last year on 1st Jan 2025.
This session will chart progress and expectations for the new guidelines and launch a brief survey to the PASA community to support this consultation process.
Your chance to ask questions of our Q&A Panel in a discussion hosted by MC, Jonathan Dutton FCIPS, in conversation with key HACP11 speakers and experts on the practical day-to-day challenges facing procurement within the aged care sector particularly; the panel will include two senior aged care procurement managers plus a practicing consultant with the aged care procurement field.
Purchasing office & workplace supplies can achieve so much more in health & aged care.
COS is a B2B products specialist fulfilling orders for more than 1 million products from Australia’s largest public, private and government Health Facilities each year – including technology, cleaning, furniture and office products
This scale offers insights on supply across complex health portfolios and can unlock buying pathways that deliver more sustainable, agile and data‑led procurement insights—improving visibility, compliance and decision‑making to meet key procurement goals for health and aged care providers.
Your procurement can also be agile and future-ready through structured onboarding, meaningful data and teal-time insights enabling autonomous user management, category rationalisation and compliance—freeing clinical, purchasing & admin staff from manual tasks and improving productivity across health and aged care networks.
This session investigates the intersection of modern slavery and healthcare, underscoring the crucial role of healthcare practitioners in identifying and addressing modern slavery.
This session includes briefly looking at the essential needs of survivors of modern slavery and examining the shifting legislative landscape, both in NSW and the Commonwealth, with particular attention to healthcare operations, governance, and the upcoming due diligence framework proposed in the suggested policy amendments.
The St Vincent’s Anti-Modern Slavery team share their findings and learning through a cross-sector collaborative effort involving the Office of the Anti-Slavery Commissioner, NSW, the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Anti-Slavery specialist NGOs such as ACRATH, individuals with lived experiences of modern slavery, the University of Notre Dame, and funding support from the Attorney General's Office to enhance anti-slavery measures in the national healthcare sector.
Take the chance to benchmark your policy and traction against St Vincents and the trajectory of the MSA and learn from others investment to apply to your organisation.
For people with disability, adaptability is not a corporate buzzword; it is a core capability forged daily by navigating a world not built for them. While many health and ageing organisations view disability inclusion through a narrow compliance lens, are they overlooking their most concentrated source of ‘AQ’ (Adaptability Quotient)?
This session challenges the mindset that treats inclusion as a risk to be managed, reframing it as a source of operational excellence. How do you practically re-engineer your sourcing to favour suppliers who bring this inherent agility to your operations? We will explore how a disability-inclusive supply chain moves beyond the ESG checkbox to deliver the resilience, innovation, and commercial flexibility required to meet the compounding demands of the Australian health sector.
Discover how elite performers stay effective under pressure by stabilising, shifting, and adapting in fast‑changing environments.
Steve Sebbes, InvoCare, shares practical habits, human‑centric frameworks, and powerful insights that help leaders reduce overwhelm, build resilience, and navigate uncertainty with confidence, shaping change rather than reacting to it …
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Full conference experience for procurement professionals- Full 2-day conference access
- All keynotes & sessions
- Networking lunches & breaks
- Conference materials
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- Networking lunches & breaks
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Access to health & aged care procurement decision-makers- Full 2-day conference access
- All keynotes & sessions
- Networking lunches & breaks
- Conference materials
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