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.
Selection, Procurement and Distribution
Morgane HOUIX, Valérie VIAUD, Cécilia HURLUPE, Yannick POIRIER
The pooling of stock for the 5 rooms required a referent for stock management. In order to free up caregivers from the administrative and logistical tasks related to pharmaceutical products, pharmacy has been directly integrated into the project of ITP.
In May 2021, interventional cardiology, rhythmology and coronary angiography have been gathered in an interventional technical platform (ITP) of 5 operating rooms. A full-time hospital pharmacy preparer (HPP) position has been set up within the ITP.
For the success of the project, the 2 chosen PPH had to easily becoming part of ITP’s teams and must learn specifics of medical devices of each speciality. For this purpose an immersion in each sector was carried out during the installation of the ITP and continues today by participating in interventions. They shared in the process of installing the PTI’s arsenal of pharmaceuticals with careteams by grouping the initials allocations of products of each speciality. The products common to each endowment were gathered and harmonized after discussion with caregivers. Each sector has kept a stock of specific devices, called “out-of-stock”.
The installation took about 632 hours of HPP time. The allocations for each sector were respectively 68, 69 and 83 references, not including out-of-stock. The HPP’s work allowed reducing the common endowment from 220 to 134 products references. A satisfaction survey of PTI teams (doctors, nurses,…) after 4 months of practice showed a level of 78% of satisfaction. 1.3% of the responses concerned activities related the management of devices affected by production delay or stoppage and information on product changes to be unsatisfactory or moderately satisfactory. Every ITP teams now considers their presence essential, believes that it has improved relations with the pharmacy and management of stocks. A saving in nursing time was also noted.
The creation of this HPP position seems to satisfy all the ITP teams. A quantitative analysis of the benefits measuring the impact on care time, the amount of over-storage and the compliance indicators of the implantable medical device circuit will be carried out during 1 year, in order to assess the impact of the creation of HPP positions within the PTI.
