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
Closed SIGs
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
Gonzalo updated Ian. He told him that the strategic proposal was approved and about the meeting with the Commission. We are currently waiting to see if Ian wants to do a conference call with the Steering Committee members before the summer. In case we do, we will discuss the COM meeting + the strategic proposal adoption during the call. In case he does not want to do a call, we will inform members by email.
WG1
Gonzalo emailed Rahul to double check if the face to face meeting on 27 October is doable for him. Once Rahul confirms, we will send out invitations.
WG3 +4
The face to face meeting will take place on 13 October. This date works for you, right?
We will send out invitations shortly to ensure that WG members can book their flights early.
Other CTF related issues:
We received 1898 responses (875 completed | 1023 partially completed).
On 1 July Austria will take over the presidency. Joan you asked me to add this to the agenda for today.
The Austrian priorities focus on migration, security, connection, subsidiarity, environmental sustainability. Health is not mentioned explicitly.
There are however a few events organised in relation to the activities of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO). Attached please find these events. Two EPSCO conference will focus on food, while the third covers occupational cancer. I am however not sure if the latter is linked with hazardous drugs since no additional information is available yet.
Moreover, the European Antibiotic Awareness Day Symposium could be interesting for us. Depending on whether it is open to the public, I think one of the AMR Board leads should attend.
Draft guideline on the responsibilities of the sponsor with regard to handling and shipping of investigational medicinal products for human use in accordance with good clinical practice and good manufacturing practice – we don’t participate, right?
During the call the functioning of the HTA health providers group will be explained to Petr. A ‘briefing document’ will follow in the course of this week with all information on HTA.
Meetings with the Commission
Two meetings will be organised in the next weeks. The first will take place on 26 June. In addition, to Commission representatives also Member State representative will join. Rob will attend. The second meeting will take place on 4 July. Only Commission representatives including Director Andrzej Rys will join. András will join.
FMD calls with members
As highlighted during the GA, we will organise calls with members on FMD in July. I am currently finalising the dates with Rob. András and Despoina already indicated their availability during their visit to Brussels on Friday. We will offer 3 to 4 dates and limit the attendance to 10 countries per call.
EMA PRAC nomination
The PRAC applications were submitted. I informed both Carlo and Roberto that the procedure is very lengthy (results will be expected at the earliest in spring 2019) and that additional requests for the submission of data
UN Sustainability Goals
The Commission has launched the first ever European Sustainability Award to recognize the efforts and creativity of European businesses, organisations and individuals who work towards reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This year, the theme of the award is “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”.
Shall we share this with members?
MNI – initiative on home parenteral nutrition – role of hospital pharmacists
They emailed today about an initiative on home parenteral nutrition (see HERE). Are we generally interested in this subject? If yes, I can check MNI and provide you with more information.
Next policy call?
