EAHP represents over 29,000 hospital pharmacists across 36 member countries. EAHP represents and develops the hospital pharmacy profession within Europe in order to ensure the continuous improvement of care and outcomes for patients in the hospital setting. This is achieved through science, research, education, practice, as well as sharing best-practice and responsibility with other healthcare professionals.
The EAHP Board, elected for three-year terms, oversees the association’s activities. Comprising directors responsible for core functions, it meets regularly to implement strategic goals. Supported by EAHP staff, the Board controls finances, coordinates congress organization, and ensures compliance with statutes and codes of conduct.
The EAHP staff supports the Board in executing EAHP’s mission. The Staff assists in financial management, events organisations, policy activities and all EAHP projects. The EAHP staff works closely with EAHP’s members and ensures the effective communication all relevant stakeholders.
The first member countries were Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany and The Netherlands in 1972. EAHP has now 36 EAHP members and 2 Associate Members. EAHP is open to countries members of the Council of Europe and since 2022 to organisations representing the interests of hospital pharmacists from outside the Council of Europe (Associate Membership)
EAHP’s structure is also composed by different standing committes: EAHP Scientific Committee, EAHP Education Executive Committee and the EAHP CTF Steering Committee.
At EAHP, we are committed to transparency in our governance, ethical standards, and funding practices. This section provides open access to our foundational documents, including the EAHP Statutes, Code of Conduct, and Funding Sources. By sharing these resources, we aim to uphold accountability and foster trust with our members, partners, and the public.
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Hospital pharmacists conduct a critical role in the care of patients in hospitals. Learn more about what they do here and in all the pages under Hospital Pharmacy practice and Policy.
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EAHP brings together experts from many areas of hospital pharmacy practice providing and highlighting good local sustainable practices as that can be up-scaled and shared with other countries. The EAHP Working Group on Sustainability has the aim of reducing the environmental burden of the hospital pharmacy services.
The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP), and its 36 member country platforms are creating a Common Training Framework for the hospital pharmacy education in Europe. The goal of this project is to allow the free movement of hospital pharmacists within the European Union.
The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) and the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) have collaboratively developed the Oath to Society. The Oath to Society is all encompassing and acts as a contract for excellence in providing compassionate patient care, working as part of the healthcare team and advancing the pharmacy profession, and showcasing how clinical and hospital pharmacists work every day
A day created to highlight the importance and to celebrate the work done by hospital pharmacies. This day celebrates all hospital pharmacy teams.
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The European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (EJHP) is the only official journal of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) and is committed to advancing the science, practice and profession of hospital pharmacy. As the premier communication platform for hospital pharmacists worldwide, EJHP is a major source for continuing education as well as updates on advances in the practice and standard of pharmaceutical care for patients.
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EAHP publishes a monthly EU monitor with updates about the latest EAHP initiatives and information relevant for the hospital pharmacy profession.
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The Sponsor Channel is designed to maximise visibility and engagement, allowing sponsors to connect with the hospital pharmacy community and partners in a dynamic and interactive environment. From product demonstrations to networking sessions, the Sponsor Channel offers a range of opportunities for sponsors to showcase their offerings and generate leads in the new EAHP Website.
Clinical Pharmacy Services
François TISSERAND, Pierre MENAGER, Alexandre NAVID, Léa ROUSSET, Adeline BANNIER, Julie MORIO, Hélène PERRIER, Elsa JOUHANNEAU
The geriatricians contacted the pharmacy to deliver training courses to the geriatric residents. This has enabled pharmacists to develop a close relationship with geriatricians to offer them clinical pharmacy activities in their ward. Geriatricians were familiar with clinical pharmacy, in particular the medication reconciliation, which is used to perform the former in other hospitals. Geriatricians are concerned with iatrogenic illness and therefore see medication reconciliation and pharmaceutical analysis as a relevant approach to clinical pharmacy.
A successful model of partnership between Geriatrics and Pharmacy has been created and developed.
A first meeting was held between geriatricians and pharmacists. It was decided a pharmacy resident would be dedicated to a given geriatrician. This first resident’s objectives are to follow the medical rounds and to carry out medication reconciliations upon admission and discharge. Pharmaceutical support has enabled real-time validation for the prescription of the appropriate drugs. As the internship progressed, the resident became the privileged interlocutor for a Pharmacy-Unit relationship.
To date, 37 medication reconciliations were carried out, where the resident followed 2 medical rounds per week over 17 weeks. All unintentional discrepancies were corrected (n=13). Concerning the appropriateness of prescriptions, 16 inappropriate medications were stopped. During the medical rounds, 34% of the therapeutic problems (n=35) were related to inappropriate drug according to guidelines, 17% to dosing errors, 14% to drugs without indication. More than 50% of pharmaceutical interventions were judged capable of preventing harm that requires increased monitoring or treatment or lengthening of the hospital stay (63%). During this period, 54 questions were asked and discussed between the resident and the geriatrician to improve patient care. At the geriatricians’ request, two courses were organized about non mastered topics. On the ward, the resident acted as a go-between for a number of issues such as referencing medical devices, rearranging the storage of medicines or finding the right contact person for information activities.
What has been done needs to be continued and improved. A pharmacist-geriatrician cross-training should be implemented soon. New activities with pharmacist-geriatrician interactions are being created, such as day hospitalization for falls in the elderly population and a geriatric emergency unit.
