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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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.
Related to January 2014 Board Meeting, agenda item 9.5.2
WG 3 – Good Practice Initiatives
Since the last Board Meeting the second call for Good Practice Initiatives closed with 52 examples submitted.
These were reviewed by the Scientific Committee, with 31 asked to submit poster to the Congress, forming a new section of the poster area.
In addition to this 11 GPIs will be presented at a special session of the Congress (Thursday 25th March, 11.45).
Following the January Scientific Committee meeting it is proposed that in future GPIs will be collected via the existing Congress abstract collection procedure.
WG 4 – the use of metrics in hospital pharmacy
At the time of writing this note, David Cousins survey on the use of metrics in hospital pharmacy was at an advanced stage and in the final stage of piloting before launch.
It is available online here. An MS Word version for return of final comments is available here.
It is intended to launch the survey the week of 27 January 2013, with a one month period for completion. David Cousins would like to receive at least 10 responses from each country.
Highlights of the interim results will then be shared at a Congress roundtable on Thursday 25th March, 1145-1315, Room 122.
WG 5 – implementation and obstacles
David Gerrett's survey for heads of hospital pharmacy regarding challenges to implementing improvements in hospital pharmacy was launched on 18 December 2013. The survey is available here.
David Gerrett is seeking at least 5 responses from each EAHP country. At the time of writing this note 361 responses had been received, from the following countries: Germany (121); Belgium (64); Sweden (39); Switzerland (23); Portugal (21); Austria (14); Croatia (11); Slovenia (9); FYROM (7); Hungary (7); Serbia (6); United Kingdom (5); Netherlands (4); Estonia (4); Czech Republic (4); Finland (3); Iceland (3); Spain (2); Luxembourg (2); Malta (2); Greece (2); B&H (2); Ireland (1); Italy (1); Norway (1); Poland (1); Slovak Republic (1); Turkey (1).
No responses had been received from: Bulgaria; Denmark; France; Latvia; Lithuania; and, Romania.
UPDATE: FINAL RESPONSE RATE
In the week ahead further work will be conducted to encourage response before the deadline of close of Wednesday 22nd January 2013
Highlights of the interim results will then be shared at a Congress roundtable on Thursday 25th March, 1145-1315, Room 122.
