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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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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Patient Safety and Quality Assurance
virginia Silvari, Suzanne McCarthy , Gerry Allen
Before its establishment, patients were referred by primary and secondary care physicians to a general cardiology clinic, often resulting in delay of the initial assessment and/or commencement of treatment for AF by the ANP. The HP had no involvement in this care pathway. The AF clinic has shortened the referral pathway for patients; physicians now refer patients directly to the clinic. The HP is responsible for medication optimisation; counselling and education whilst clinicians can focus on clinical examinations, diagnostics and analysis of tests results.
The atrial fibrillation (AF) clinic was established in a tertiary referral hospital. The clinic is led by a hospital pharmacist (HP), with expertise in cardiology and anticoagulation, and an advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) specialised in electrophysiology. Cardiologists’ input is available when required. In line with AF guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), patients attending the clinic receive full stroke risk assessment and are presented with different treatment options by the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). These options include heart rate/ rhythm control and stroke prevention and where appropriate DC-cardioversion. Patient’s preferences guide management of the treatment.
Stakeholder engagement was essential in establishing the clinic and planning meetings were used to ensure seamless delivery of the service. Analysis of the process showed that the critical path (bottleneck) was access to diagnostics on the same day of attendance of the patient to the clinic. Therefore, the clinic was established on a day where the cardiac-physiology department had sufficient resources to accommodate the clinic. It was also necessary to ensure allocated time for the ANP and HP to deliver the service.
The HP has improved patient safety by conducting medication reviews, in particular optimisation of anticoagulants according to patients’ preferences (warfarin versus direct oral anticoagulants) and their characteristics such as renal functions, body weight and age. HP also provides to the patients a one-to-one counselling session on their medications (focus on anticoagulants), adherence, drug interactions and side effects.
Having seen the benefits of this AF Clinic and the holistic service it delivers, it is recommended that hospitals establish an AF clinic to provide optimum treatment and prevent AF-related complications.
