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.
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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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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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Clinical Pharmacy Services
Sarah POGGIO, Anne-Sylvie DUMENIL, Sandrine ROY, Claire HENRY
BPMH on admission has been performed in these departments since 2011. An analysis of the process and prescriber use of BPMH highlighted an underutilisation; average consultation rate was 29.8%. The main reasons were the online publishing interval of the BMPH and competition with the AC report which also displays medication. A previous study showed a 70% rate of patients with unintended differences between BMPH and the AC report.
We redesigned the pharmaceutical care process for programmed patient circuits in orthopaedic and visceral surgery by providing the “best possible medication history” (BPMH) in the patient’s electronical medical record (EMR) before anaesthesia consultation (AC).
Due to a lack of coordination, we exchanged using surgery with anaesthesia schedules to select patients, thus improving prioritisation. We created support documents for students, describing how to conduct a phone interview in order to reassure unfamiliar patients, to gather useful data (GP, pharmacy, prescription) to produce a BPMH, to visit inpatients when admitted to confirm the BPMH’s accuracy and to assess patient satisfaction with the process. We trained 6 students and presented our work at an anaesthetist staff meeting.
Among 195 patients included from June to October 2019, 70.2% BPMH before admission were successfully published online (137/195), 67 went through the complete care path (from home to discharging), 12 never came for AC and/or surgery, 58 were published but waiting for patient’s admission and 58 failed. The reasons we failed to publish on time included inability to reach patients (31.6%), lack of sources (21.1%), time shortage before AC (17.6%), surgery cancellation (14.0%) and refusal (7.3%). 1.58 (±0.85) calls were needed to reach a patient, 13 BPMH required modification after admission (19%), and patient satisfaction on average was 5.11/6 when asked whether the call, the medication management during hospitalisation and the confirmation interview went well. Finally, the consultation rate of BMPH evolved from 29.8% in 2017 to 72% since we changed practices.
Implementing this new process in the care path streamlines information transfer between the different stakeholders (anaesthetists, surgeons, pharmacists) and provides a better integration of pharmaceutical care in surgery wards as an efficient support system for prescribers.
