Stefanie Deuster, Head of the department quality assurance in the pharmacy, University Hospital Basel (Switzerland), whose career focusses on the preparation of drugs for the special needs of patients as well as the manufacturing of investigational medicinal products for clinical trials – and all the requirements for assuring the quality of the drugs. She will show possibilities to create and shape the general requirements for pharmaceutical preparation in pharmacies through cooperation and networks, and also talk about the different pharmacies (production and quality assurance). Having joined several working groups as Expert, on the national level with the Swiss authorities and also once on EU level in Strasbourg, she will discuss the needs and possibilities of pharmacy preparation with the authorities and to influence the requirements to facilitate production in pharmacies.

Conflict of interest: Family member working for industry