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
Hind Bouami, Dorine Castillo
The human-machine system designer has to make decisions to secure and improve the automation process, and handle organization’s complexity. Documenting human agent’s situation awareness is crucial to support human-machine designers’ decision-making. Knowledge about risks, critical parameters and factors that can impact and threaten automation system’s performance and security are valuable for human agents, and should be collected using preventive and retrospective approaches.The evaluation of Macon hospital center’s automation performance enables to identify critical parameters to control in order to secure the human-machine system.
An automation evaluation approach has been conducted in Macon hospital center, a hospital equipped with automated drug dispensing solutions for more than 5 years. The analysis of Macon hospital center automation’s feedback provides relevant information to enhance the perception and the comprehension of the system’s complexity fully, environmental factors that interact with the system, and to identify critical parameters in the automation process. Therefore, agents can design a projection of a secure and performant automated organization. This information will enable hospitals to make effective decisions to improve their automation project performance.
We deployed an anthropocentric approach for automated system evaluation in Macon hospital center.
Our approach integrates six steps that are run in automated hospital pharmacies to analyze their feedback [6]:
1) The identification of pharmacy’s automation needs and objectives, and the analysis of operational environment and existing equipment,
2) The analysis of automated equipment functional specifications formalized by the pharmacy,
3) The evaluation of automation deployment results and related gains,
4) The evaluation of specific actions implemented by the pharmacy during automation process,
5) The analysis of the parameters to control for automated equipment integration security and performance,
6) The analysis of factors influencing human-machine interaction.
The analysis of Macon hospital center pharmacy’s automation specifications revealed that 66.22% of automation requirements are technical, 29.73% concern human-machine interaction, and 4.05% relate to human aspects.
80.95% of automation specification related to the chosen Sinteco’s automated solution are met. The performance of the chosen automated solution is involved in 28.38% of automation specifications performance in Macon hospital center. The remaining systemic parameters involved in automation specifications performance need to be controlled.
Critical systemic parameters involved in automated solutions specifications and performance that have been identified through Macon hospital’s automation feedback are: the specificities of the chosen automated solution, hospital’s strategic decisions and budgetary constraints, the complexity of the hospital’s organization, the complexity of hospital’s information system, the constraints related to the packaging of drugs by pharmaceutical firms, users training, the complexity of the automated system, and users’ requirements and constraints.
The five parameters influencing human-machine interaction that should be managed to secure automated systems are: understanding the system’s complexity, defining relevant levels of automation, determining human and automated agents’ authority, determining human and automated agents’ autonomy, and understanding the human complexity.
Handling life-critical systems complexity such as medication delivery activity requires to be equipped with appropriate technology, and to control automation risks. The integration of human-machine principles is crucial to secure automation in hospitals, and to maintain a good balance between automation and human skills.
