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.
Self-Assessment
SILCC
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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.
Steering Committee – A call will be organised next week with committee members. Ian has already highlighted by email that he would like to discuss ‘what if’ scenarios with a smaller group before bringing up the issues with the Committee itself.
Aurelie resigned and proposed Guillaume has her successor. Is there any formal procedure to be followed or can we simply accept the decision by the French collective and include Guillaume in the committee?
WG 1 – No news since Rahul is still on holidays.
WG3 + 4 – 14 WG members have signed up for the face-to-face event in October. Gonzalo wanted me to bring up the CTF information package. Do you have comments on the documents (information package | NCA package)? Moreover, can we share it with WG 3+4 members? Shall we gather comments by email or do you want us to organise a call before August?
Stakeholder mapping template – Do you have comments on the document shared by Gonzalo?
Endorsements – The following members have endorsed the CTF project: Italy, Spain, France, Malta, Latvia, Romania, Estonia, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Hungary.
Brief report from the Roundtable discussion on pharmaceutical compounding (10 July). Data collection on the existing practices + guidelines/SOPs on national level potentially to be considered for a discussion at the September Board meeting.
Brief report on the meeting with MEP Rodin’s assistant (11 July).
Given the existence of a number of EMA experts, are we considering the commenting on bioequivalence guideline consultations or are we continuing to not participate in these?
Brief update on the HTA meeting organised by the Commission (9 July). From the comments by the Commission representatives it seemed that they are only taking into account written feedback (i.e. Statements by associations) that they have received so far.
Meetings with the Commission – Brief update on the meetings with the European Commission. Very little interested from the Commission in assisting us with our problems has emerged from these meetings.
FMD calls with members – calls started on 10 July. There will be 4 in total. The last one is going to be held on 17 July. The aim of the calls is to update each other on the progress. Countries that cannot participate will be asked for written feedback.
Austrian presidency event – I checked the Austrian conference in November. The programme was already set in advance and cannot be altered. It is going to be in German and seems to be very much physician focused.
EU JAMRAI – The initiative is still working on the MoU. It will be shared shortly (not sure when they have been saying this for month). We however already got invited to the first Stakeholder meeting on 9th November in Vienna. I forwarded the invitation to Steffen and Kees.
Policy part – Are there any policy topics that you would like to discuss in addition to the ‘usual suspects’ (i.e. FMD; AMR; shortages; eHealth; barcoding; medical devices; HTA; biosimilars; etc.)? Do you need any additional information on ‘up and coming policy issues’ for your strategic meeting and the review of topic areas/board leads?
April Board meeting action items – The following points were deferred until the GA, endorsement policy + annual report ideas. Joan, how do you want to proceed with these. Shall I prepare a first draft by the end of July for you to comment on in August while I am on holidays?
What about the EJHP piece on Brexit/shortages and FMD. Joan are you still planning to draft an article on this? Pascal Garel (HOPE) has agreed to write an editorial for the November issue.
MNI – initiative on home parenteral nutrition – role of hospital pharmacists
Please find HERE the endorsement check following our checklist of MNI.
MOIC
I completely forgot about the MoU which was signed by Petr in June. I will email it to MOIC asap.
PGEU
PGEU is carrying out a perception audit (see HERE). Do we want to participate?
EPDA’s Multidisciplinary expert review panel
EPDA approached me about their expert review panel. They were previously put in touch by Richard with Kate Leonardo (North Bristol NHS Trust). However she seems to have left her former position and they are now looking for her contact details or other experts.
Politico – Shortages article
Politico reached out to me to discuss shortages and parallel trade for an article they are working on. What do you think about this? Nenad asked for your input.
Next policy call? Week of 23/7 or week of 30/7?
