What is the self-assessment tool for hospital pharmacists?
The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) has developed an online self-assessment tool to allow hospital pharmacists to assess the level of implementation of the Statements within their hospitals.
By assessing their hospital pharmacies, hospital pharmacists will not only be able to understand the statement implementation level within their hospitals, but it will also help them understand where they are within their own countries and others. The self-assessment tool will also complement the information we have been collecting through our regular surveys.
The tool will provide the means for hospital pharmacists to address the areas needing improvement with a tailor-made action plan and evidence-based resources. The tool will allow pharmacies to show progress as it can be updated at any time.
Development of the self-assessment tool
- EAHP has developed the self-assessment tool with the help of Edgimo, an US based company. The license used to develop the tool was provided by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
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In order to develop the tool, EAHP also had the help of a working group of highly qualified hospital pharmacists:
- Introductory statements and governance: Tony West (UK), Joan Peppard (Ireland) and Roberto Frontini (Italy)
- Selection, Procurement and distribution: Rute Varela (Portugal) and Trine Kart Sorensen (Denmark)
- Clinical Pharmacy: Darija Kuruk Poje (Croatia) and Dave Thornton (England)
- Patient Safety and Quality Assurance: Tony West (UK) and Darija Kuruk Poje (Croatia)
- Production and Compounding: Vagn Neerup (Denmark), Paul Le Brun (Netherlands)
- Education and Research: Francesca Venturini (Italy), Torsten Hoppe-Tichy (Germany), Irene Kraemer (Germany)
- EAHP also wants to thank all EAHP delegates and our national associatons for their valuable feedback during the development of the self-assessment tool. Several workshops were organised during the 46th EAHP General Assembly (Prague, June 2016) and the 47th General Assembly (Malta, June 2017) to discuss and review the alpha and beta versions of the self-assessment tool.
