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.
Clinical Pharmacy Services
Trine R. H. Andersen
In Region Zealand, 1 of 5 regions in Denmark, clinical pharmacist services have been developed and implemented for the past decade. Especially in the acute wards, clinical pharmacists are an integrated part of the team when receiving, assessing and admitting patients to the hospital. As stated by the EAHP, “Clinical pharmacy services should continuously evolve to optimise patients’ outcomes” (EAHP statement 4.8), and a new approach was taken to further optimise the existing collaboration between the physicians and pharmacists on patients’ medication.
The clinical pharmacy department of Region Zealand Hospital Pharmacy engaged a project with a senior year anthropology student. The anthropology student observed clinical pharmacists working with clinical pharmacist services in three acute wards. The observations on the collaboration of patients’ medication processes were disseminated to the pharmacists and physicians at the wards. This will aid in further strengthening of the collaboration and utilisation the healthcare professionals’ individual competencies in the hospital wards.
A senior year anthropology student was engaged to do objective observations of the pharmacists and physicians when collaborating in the acute wards. An anthropologist is trained to suppress subjective opinions and has no previous inception of the healthcare professionals’ work in the acute ward, and hence can do low biased observations. For 4 months the anthropologist made objective observations several times a week at each ward, and towards the end of the studies also supplemented the observations with individual interviews to further understand observed situations.
After the field observations and interviews, recurrent observation points were extracted from data and presented to the pharmacist and physicians in plenum. Discussions on the presented observations was found enlightening and strengthened the teamwork by better understanding the differences in the pharmacists’ and physicians’ responsibilities in the medication process respectively. Take home messages were visibility as well as accessibility of the pharmacist, and respect of each other’s contributions to the team.
The data will further be analysed and processed during the anthropology student’s final year and master’s thesis. The take home messages will be combined in a short introduction leaflet aimed for newly employed clinical pharmacists.
