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.
26th June 2012
European Hospital Pharmacists from 31 countries have voted unanimously to approve a statement that calls for urgent changes to the framework for clinical trial regulation across the European Economic Area (EEA).
The statement, issued by the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP), highlights the declining number of trials taking place since the introduction of a Commission Directive on the subject in 2001, and adds the Association’s support to the number of organisations calling for streamlined assessment and approval mechanisms.
More specifically, the statement supports:
• the suggestion of a single electronic portal for submitting trials for assessment;
• the maintenance of ethical assessment of trials at a national level;
• greater distinction being made in the assessment process between high risk and low risk trials; and,
• a process being created to enable multi-sponsor trials.
The statement goes on to explore the identified problem of underrepresented participation in trials by key patient groups such as the elderly, children and females. The EAHP calls on the Commission to acknowledge and examine this issue within the scope of forthcoming changes to the regulation. EAHP suggest that the EU Paediatric Regulation of 2007 has helped to improve the consideration of children within the trial process and that other regulatory solutions of a similar nature could be available.
Finally the statement calls for an opening up of access to clinical trial data for the purposes of independent analysis and the development of predictive models. The EAHP recommend that it should be a condition of licence applicants to publish all available trial data provided to the European Medicines Agency in peer-reviewed Journals.
Commenting on the statement, Dr. Roberto Frontini, President of the EAHP, said:
“The 21,000 Hospital Pharmacists across Europe are the secondary and tertiary care experts in medicines, pharmacotherapy and pharmacokinetics. On a daily basis, they play a central role in the implementation and conduct of clinical trials in every European country. This statement is a product of that experience, and our profession’s desire to achieve better regulation that enables improvements to new medicine development.
We look forward to meeting the Commission later in the summer to discuss our proposals. The proposed reform of the regulation presents a unique opportunity to streamline assessment, give more attention to particular patient groups, and improve access to essential trial data. We want to ensure the opportunity is not missed.”
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For further information please contact info@eahp.eu
* EAHP President Dr. Roberto Frontini is available for interview on request
NOTES TO EDITORS:
1. The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists is an association of national organisations representing hospital pharmacists at European and international levels. More information about the EAHP and its history here.
2. The new Statement from EAHP was approved by delegates at its recent General Assembly in Budapest (14-17 June). It is available on the EAHP website here.
3. According to European Commission figures, between 2007 and 2010 there has been a 15% decline in both the number of clinical trial studies within EU sites and the number of EU subjects participating in these studies. Although other issues are involved as well, there is a consensus within the health sector that a major factor attributed to this decline in trial activity relates to the EU Clinical Trials Directive (2001/20/EC), including:
• differing interpretations of requirements in different member states;
• separate definitions of key terms across Europe; and,
• a lack of guidance in implementing and complying with the Directive.
4. It is estimated by some organisations that the Directive has contributed to a 65 per cent increase in the time it takes researchers to get approval for their studies, and a 75 per cent increase in administrative costs . Another assessment undertaken by the Impact on Clinical Research of European Legislation (ICREL) found that non-commercial sponsors required an increase from 1.5 to 2.8 FTE (full-time equivalent) staff to manage administrative tasks associated with a Clinical Trial Authorisation, and that there was an increase in time between finalisation of protocol and first patient recruited from 144 to 178 days.
