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.
Self-Assessment
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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.
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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.
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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Linked to EAHP Statements
Section 4 – Clinical Pharmacy Services: Statements 4.1, 4.2
Section 5 – Patient Safety and Quality Assurance: Statements 5.2, 5.5
ACPE UAN: 0475-0000-18-021-L04-P. A knowledge based activity.
Abstract
The antimicrobial stewardship (AS) interventions are shown to be effective in increasing compliance and reducing duration of therapy, as well as even mortality for selected interventions. The general complex goal of hospital AS program is to fine tune antimicrobial use in regards to efficacy, resistance-induction, toxicity, cost, timely intravenous to oral switch, and discontinuation. Reduction of Clostridium difficile infections should also be considered in high risk settings. Objectives of AS program in each hospital can be quite different and often prioritization should be made at the very start.
What makes AS in hospitals very complicated is the large number of physicians of various specialties and educational backgrounds that prescribe antimicrobials. Structural, persuasive and restrictive strategies were all shown to be effective. Combination of different strategies can be employed depending on the problem that should be solved and level of compliance in the staff of the department. Whatever the chosen strategy is, it is essential to provide good microbiological results in the timely manner and make sure that sensitivity testing information is collected, analyzed and feedback provided. Simplified sensitivity report can be negotiated with laboratory to simplify decision making. Proper use of express tests and biomarkers is also very important in decision-making. Various software adjustments are very helpful and should be considered at the start of AS implementation program.
Interventions in selected departments are frequently preferred with careful monitoring of change, analysis of data, costs and subsequent feedback to the staff. Antibiotic consumption data using DDDs/bed days should be used only for general data collection but will provide insufficient information about the prescribing pattern, especially if children and patients with renal failure are included. PDD data in combination with clinical information are more useful but usually difficult to obtain even with good computerized systems. Point prevalence protocols with simple questionnaires are still very useful for identification of main targets for intervention. Simple audit could be used for implementation of surgical prophylaxis protocol. Therefore methodology of assessment of each intervention should be carefully planned ahead.
Learning objectives
After the session, the participant should be able to:
• select relevant strategies for certain antimicrobial stewardship program goals
• to use different data collection methods to monitor and feedback the results of antimicrobial stewardship interventions
Educational need addressed
Antibiotic resistance is recognized as one of the biggest threats to global health. Hospital pharmacists need to know how to promote and increase the rational use of antibiotics using different stewardship programmes.
Keywords: antimicrobial stewardship, decision making, feedback
