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.
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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.
Patient Safety and Quality Assurance
Sophia Elizabeth Campbell Davies, Elena Galfrascoli, Tommaso Saporito, Gaetana Muserra
Spontaneous reporting is an important tool for the surveillance of drug safety. However, the number of reported ADRs by Hospital healthcare workers and patients was below the gold standard (300 reports/year). Since under-reporting is a major limitation of any Pharmacovigilance system, the causes were analysed by the Pharmacy and a number of actions were put into place.
Active strategies were implemented by Pharmacists within the Hospital to raise awareness and encourage appropriate detection and reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs).
Different active strategies have been implemented in the Hospital to increase the number of ADR reports:
-Training and educational programs for all healthcare professionals in order to create awareness within the Hospital of the importance of ADR reporting;
-Periodic ADR feedback reports to doctors;
-Guidelines for monitoring, detecting, preventing and reporting ADRs;
-Participation of Clinical Pharmacists in different ward teams (Internal Medicine, Diabetology, Oncology, Paediatrics, Emergency Room, Surgery) allowing Pharmacists to act immediately on problem recognition;
-Counseling patients when drugs are dispensed at the Hospital Pharmacy and providing them with “Patient Information Leaflets” containing adherence and ADR diaries. The monitoring tool has been shown to be a crucial element in raising awareness about compliance and ADRs in patients.
A successful example has been obtained with DAA treatment in HCV patients showing a 63% compliance to the monitoring tool.
A significant increase has been observed in ADR reporting in the Hospital. Projects implemented by the Pharmacy have almost trebled the number of reports. There has also been an increase in the number of reported severe ADRs.
Implementation of different approaches has significantly changed the scenario of ADR reporting in our Hospital. The strategies could be transferred into other healthcare settings by identifying the causes of underreporting ADRs and applying similar strategies both in the Pharmacy and in the ward settings.
