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.
At EAHP, we are committed to transparency in our governance, ethical standards, and funding practices. This section provides open access to our foundational documents, including the EAHP Statutes, Code of Conduct, and Funding Sources. By sharing these resources, we aim to uphold accountability and foster trust with our members, partners, and the public.
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.
Self-Assessment
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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.
Catch up with EAHP’s press releases
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.
When EAHP and Hospital pharmacists appear in the news.
EAHP publishes a monthly EU monitor with updates about the latest EAHP initiatives and information relevant for the hospital pharmacy profession.
Sponsor Channel
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
Charlotte Sørensen, Karin Aagot Møller Jørgensen, Anne Grethe Nørgaard Kyndi, Charlotte Lund Madsen, Line Scriver Poulsen, Charlotte Hjorth, Gitte Slyngborg Morbjerg, Janni Østergaard Jensen, Mette Juul-Gregersen, Rune Dalsenni Rask
A sustainability project in 2020 highlighted manual and time-consuming workflows when checking expiry dates in hospital medicine rooms. For example, manual reading, interpretation and notation of expiry dates in paper forms every half year. Therefore, a smartphone application was developed and implemented in a large university hospital in 2022. The application was a huge success and colleagues from other Clinical Pharmacy departments in other hospitals within the same region wanted to be part of the success of the initiative.
A smartphone application for managing expiry dates in medicine rooms was applied in one hospital in 2022 and in four other hospitals in 2023. The data-matrix of medicine packages is scanned with a smartphone camera and the application gives a sorted overview of medication near expiry. In the application you can register a medicine package as either used, discarded or released. By releasing medicine packages, the medicine is made available to colleagues in other medicine rooms.
The smartphone application was implemented in Clinical Pharmacy departments in four other hospitals, one by one from February 2023. After implementation the application is used in 373 medicine rooms.
Clinical Pharmacy staff are happy with the application. It takes significantly less time to check and scan expiry dates with the digital solution.
From February to September 2023 (five hospitals)
• 47491 packages were scanned
• 5251 packages were released (11%)
• 2664 packages were moved between medicine rooms to avoid medicine wastage (51%; 147000 €). Most activity (78%) was seen at the hospital that had been using the application since 2022. Most packages were moved between medicine rooms at the same hospital; however, in 215 cases (8%), medicines were exchanged between hospitals as well (20.000 €)
• 10918 packages were discarded due to expiry (743168 €; 0.5% of bought medicine).
The full potential of the digital solution remains to be achieved.
Pharmaconomists have to release medicine in the application a few months earlier than they do now. To go shopping in the application before ordering from the pharmacy, will probably also result in discarding less medicine. Sharing medication across hospitals to a greater extent will also be relevant to consider.
