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.
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.
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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.
Introductory Statements and Governance
Irene Lizano, Ferran Montpart, Elisenda Pomares, Guillem Saborit-Canals, Míriam Fernández
Treprostinil is a prostacyclin analogue indicated for the treatment of PAH. A recent retrospective study analyzed drug safety events observed in the clinical trials of oral and subcutaneous (SC) treprostinil. This analysis showed that higher treprostinil doses were associated with lower PAH-related hospitalization rates, compared to lower doses.
To estimate annual pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)-related hospitalization costs in patients treated with different treprostinil doses in nine European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom).
A cost estimation model was developed to calculate hospitalization costs in patients with PAH who were treated with treprostinil at different doses. Annual hospitalization rates were gathered from a retrospective analysis of an oral and SC treprostinil global safety database. Patients were categorized into three groups based on total daily dose: low, medium and high. Low dose was defined as <4.0 and <1.9 mg/day (9.0 and >7.6 mg/day (>30 ng/kg/min). PAH-related hospitalization costs were included and, when not available, heart failure-related costs were considered as it is the main cause of hospitalization in PAH patients. Mean annual hospitalization costs per dose were calculated using annual PAH-related hospitalization rates (0.9 for low dose, 0.4 for medium dose, and 0.3 for high dose) and unit costs per hospitalization in each country. All costs were obtained from national databases or published literature and were expressed in 2021 euros.
Mean annual PAH-related hospitalization costs ranged from €1,649 to €8,382 for low dose, from €733 to €3,726 for medium dose, and from €550 to €2,794 for high dose. Thus, hospitalization costs for high-dose patients were 3 times lower than for low-dose patients (mean difference €2,610) and 1.3 times lower than those for medium-dose patients (€435).
High doses of treprostinil result in lower hospitalization costs than low and medium doses in patients with PAH. Therefore, an appropriate drug titration might lead to potential cost savings in various European settings.
Patient Safety and Quality Assurance
Cyril Magnan, Elise Betmont, Guillaume Saint Lorant, Hubert Benoist
Evaluate the economic impact of improvement actions taken since 2017 on TSPs management.
Cold chain is a major issue in the pharmaceutical industry as a growing number of its products are temperature-sensitive and also in hospitals. In 2017, 27 cold chain breaks were declared by care units (CU) within a French teaching hospital, resulting in a risk for patient care and a potential loss of 40,363 euros, of which 18,505 euros (45%) could be avoided. Following this first study, a set of measures have been implemented in our establishment in order to secure the cold chain.
Potential losses and avoided losses of TSPs have been analyzed continuously since 2017 according to the same methods in a teaching hospital with 1,600 beds. In case of a thermal excursion (ET), the pharmacy is, according to the institutional procedure, immediately warned by an electronic alarm day and night or by a call from the care service, making it possible to define the action required from the service concerning the methods of keeping TSPs.
Since 2017, a mobile isothermal enclosure has been implemented for the transport of TSPs during the day in the CU. Connected temperature-monitoring sensors have been installed on so-called “at-risk” refrigerators. The alarm reports to the pharmacy was instituted in order to intervene as quickly as possible. Part of the refrigerators has been renewed and awareness has been raised among all CUs for the good traceability of temperature readings, allowing a drop from 24% in 2018 to 65% of compliant traceability in 2019. Following these improvement actions, 53 ETs with a potential loss of 53,769 euros were declared in 2019, of which 39,753 euros of losses could be avoided. Currently, 74% of ET losses can be avoided compared to 43% in 2017.
This economic assessment of the potential losses and the avoided losses of PTs shows the positive impact of the various improvement measures taken since 2017 as well as education of the UDS to secure TSPs. A regional awareness was implemented thanks to a collaboration with the regional health agency in order to promote TSPs management in the hospitals.
