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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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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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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Clinical Pharmacy Services
SILVIA CONDE, ÁNGEL MARCOS, JOSEP TORRENT, CLARA SALOM, LAURA CANADELL
Prior to the start of the project, inpatient treatments were not validated. The objective of this pharmaceutical care project was to improve the pharmacotherapy of the patients admitted to the hospital in terms of efficacy and safety.
We implemented a pharmaceutical care project in a 153-bed regional hospital.
The pharmaceutical care project was based on 2 main strategies. The first of them was the validation of the treatment prescribed to inpatients according to their clinical situation. We planned to validate inpatient’s treatment from Monday to Friday during working hours.
The second one was the incorporation of the clinical pharmacist to hospital’s antimicrobial stewardship program. We established 2 meetings per week with the antimicrobial stewardship group. Revisions were focused on prescriptions of broad-spectrum antibiotics for more than 48 hours, antibiotic treatments longer than 7 days and prescriptions of aminoglycosides, vancomycin, and linezolid, among others.
During the 6 first months (January-June 2021), a total of 222 pharmaceutical interventions were performed, being the most frequent:
– “Discontinue medication” (22.97%), mainly because of “Undue duration” (31.37%) and “Therapeutic duplication” (29.41%)
– “Modify dose” (31.62%)
– “Change medication” (17.12%), mainly due to “Adjustment to antibiogram” (26.32%), “Medication exchange” (18.42%) and “Inadequate medication for the clinical situation of the patient” (15.79%).
The pharmaceutical intervention acceptance rate was 81.10%.
Related to the antimicrobial stewardship program, a total of 171 revisions were performed, making any treatment advice in 51 of them (29.82%). The most frequent recommendation was to “Discontinue treatment because of undue duration” (25.49%), followed by “Adjustment to antibiogram” (15.69%), “De-escalate treatment” (11.76%) and “Increment of antibiotic dose” (11.76%). Acceptance rate was 94%.
The pharmaceutical care program allows both the early identification of possible medication errors and upgrades in inpatients’ treatment.
