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
Louise Stilling Rasmussen, Lene Juhl Biltsted, Majken Nørskov Petersen
To implement EAHP statements on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance the hospital pharmacist carried out the intervention in one of the largest psychiatric clinics in the region. The following challenges were observed: Lack of transparency for healthcare professionals. Inflexible and time consuming workflow which did not accommodate the needs in the medical treatment at the clinic. The workflow caused waste of medicine. Changes in the medical treatment, which caused medicine being surplus and ended up expiring. The distribution was expensive and not sustainable.
By changing the handling and distribution of medication for psychiatric patients who are entitled to free medicine from the hospital, we now have an agile, streamlined, patient-safe and transparent workflow that ensures patient safety by accommodation of the seven rights, increases the flexibility and availability of medicine to the patient’s current treatment and gives a more sustainable handling of medicine. Furthermore, resulted in direct and indirect financial savings (estimated direct savings 8%, DKK 250,000).
A medication room was reorganised by the pharmacist according to ATC codes, shelf fronts, active ingredients and expiry date.
Establishment of a computer and scanner, linked to the national Shared Medication Record containing all patients’ prescriptions.
Medicine is ordered online from the hospital pharmacy.
New modern quality assured medication room with electronic registration of medicines dispensed to the patients. This provides transparency of the medical treatment across the healthcare sector. The medicines are stored correctly, and the integrity is maintained until immediate use and permit correct administration. Elimination of medication waste and reduced time consumption for healthcare personnel gave an estimated direct savings of approx. DKK 250,000 plus an uncalculated saving of staff time. Finally, a more sustainable management of medicines and reduced the risk of errors regarding medical distribution was achieved.
The results of this project have scaling potential. A presentation for decision-makers about implementing the solution elsewhere is ongoing. The handling and distribution has been changed from patient-labelled medication to secure digital registration of the medication dispensing from the medicine room, which now allows complete traceability of all medicines dispensed by the pharmacy.
