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.
Keep up with all EAHP’s events and webinars. Contact the team at info@eahp.eu should you have any questions about upcoming events or activities.
Here you can find all upcoming events organised by EAHP and by all its members and associate members. Do not hesitate to contact the events team at events@eahp.eu should you have any questions about the organisation of these events.
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.
Catch up with EAHP’s press releases
Find all EAHP relevant publication like the EAHP Surveys, annual reports and the history books.
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.
When EAHP and Hospital pharmacists appear in the news.
EAHP publishes a monthly EU monitor with updates about the latest EAHP initiatives and information relevant for the hospital pharmacy profession.
Sponsor Channel
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.
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In the 21st century, community, and also hospital pharmacists, will play an increasingly important role as partners in the efficient use of the health care resources of the EU.
PHARMINE or PHARMacy education IN Europe is a project, partially funded by the European Commission (LLL programme, Erasmus). Its aims and objectives are to survey the present state of pharmacy education and training in Europe, and on the basis of this survey, formulate recommendations for new competence curricula for pharmacy education and training in the EU. A model for pharmacy education and training for candidate Member States and others will be proposed. Finally, a quality assurance and accreditation scheme for EU pharmacy courses will be set up. PHARMINE will take into account two important issues, (i) the EU directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications and, (ii) the Bologna declaration.
PHARMINE will focus both on recommendations for core education and training and for optional activities such as hospital pharmacy. Hospital pharmacy is a major concern for the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists. During the past years, the EAHP has strived towards recognition of a specialization in hospital pharmacy by the EU. EAHP has succeeded in producing a written amendment on the specialization in hospital pharmacy that has been included in a preliminary version of the Directive of professional qualifications. Although unfortunately, this amendment was not adopted in the final version of the Directive, it was accepted by the European Parliament on its first hearing of the Directive, a vote that could be interpreted as a victory in the history of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists.
The PHARMINE consortium consists of universities which are members of the European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy (EAFP) and EU partner associations representing community, hospital of industrial pharmacy, together with the European Pharmacy Students’ Association and other interested bodies. In order to reach the aims and objective of the PHARMINE project, a work-plan was set up and divided into 7 work-packages.
Work-package 7 (WP7) is the key work-package in the PHARMINE project. The aims and objectives of PHARMINE WP7 are to produce a databank of pharmacy education and training courses in Europe leading to core pharmacist qualifications and to qualifications required for optional activities such as hospital pharmacy. WP7 aims to survey to what extent the “Bologna” and the “Sectoral profession” (based on 2005/36/EC) models for pharmacy education and training are compatible. WP7 will collect data directly from pharmacy HEIs in the EU, from the EAFP archives, from EAHP and others such as PGEU, EIPG and EPSA. The principal milestone will be the delivery of the data required for the production of white papers on pharmacy education and training in Europe. The main performance indicator is the retrieval of full data from at least one HEI in each Member State that delivers a pharmacy diploma qualification. The success of the PHARMINE project depends upon the quality of the data obtained by this WP7. Once PHARMINE activities are over it is hoped to continue its tasks with the creation of a European Working Group on Pharmacy Education. This will ensure that the information available in the databank is kept up-to-date. If you are interested in PHARMINE please visit: www.pharmine.org.
Teaching goal : to provide the tools (via oral presentations with question and answer sessions) to grasp the aims and objectives, the organisation, the milestones and the performance indicators of the overall PHARMINE project and of work-package 7 (the survey of existing programmes for pharmacy education and training in Europe).
Learning objective : after the seminar, delegates should be able to understand the importance and the nature of the European consortium for pharmacy education and training PHARMINE (PHARMacy education IN Europe).
