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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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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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.
Production and Compounding
Jannik Almasi, Irene Krämer
Aim of the study was to evaluate if the microbiological cleanliness of the working area of APOTECAchemo® is affected by extending the interval of intensive cleaning from biweekly to monthly cleaning intervals.
Automated preparation of ready-to-administer chemotherapy products with the APOTECAchemo® robot is well established in a number of pharmacy departments. One of the few disadvantages is the time-consuming, intensive cleaning and disinfection of the working area (clean room class A) by wiping with cleaning and disinfection solutions.
Every two weeks (period 1: 07-12/2018) or every four weeks (period 2: 01-06/2019) all surfaces in the working area of APOTECAchemo® were wiped with ethanolic NaOH solution in order to inactivate or remove cytotoxic spillages. In a second work step all surfaces are disinfected by wiping with spore-free alcohol. The procedure lasts about one hour. The working area is at the end of each working session irradiated with UV light for 4 hours. Microbiological monitoring of the working area is done weekly in operation by passive air sampling (2 settle plates at predefined locations S1, S2) and surface sampling (3 contact plates at predefined locations O1, O2, O3) and colony-forming units (CFU) are counted after incubation. Results of the microbiological samples (CFU ± standard deviation) were compared for period 1 and 2. On average, 0 CFU (n=52) were detected (period 1) and 0.04±0.2 CFU (n=44) (period 2) on settle plates. During period 1 on average 0.04±0.19 CFU were found at O1, 0 CFU on O2, and 0.81 CFU±4.23 at O3 (n=27 each). During period 2, 0 CFU were detected at O1, O2 and 0.04±0.2 CFU at O3 (n=25 each). The extended interval for the intensive cleaning process did not affect the microbiological cleanliness. The CFU limits set for clean room class A were met.
Maintaining the daily cleaning procedure, the interval of intensive cleaning can be extended to one month without increasing the microbiological contamination risk and saving two hours of cleaning.
Monthly intensive cleaning will be attended by trending the microbiological results.
