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Antimicrobial resistance – September 2019

The April 2019 Board meeting covered

  • EAHP’s opinion on pharmaceuticals in the environment
  • Updates from the AMR thematic network on the health policy platform
  • Information sharing on an ECDC/OECD AMR briefing document
  • 2 endorsement requests (wastewater management/ European Lead Factory)

AMR

EAAD 2019

  • EAHP’s long-standing contact (Andrea Nilsson) left ECDC
  • EAAD 2019 will focus on healthcare workers
  • EAHP to be invited to EAAD awareness event on 18th November in Stockholm (1 participant is sponsored by ECDC; more can attend)
  • HP specific data from survey to assess healthcare workers’ antibiotic use and resistance will be shared with EAHP in November
  • EAHP can use shared data to create imaging/messaging to be shared as of 18th November

Stewardship campaign

  • The Board leads have worked on putting together an advocacy toolkit for a campaign on stewardship
  • A very rough draft is available HERE
  • This document will be supplemented with information from the call with ECDC held on 20th September
  • The final version will be shared with members ahead of the EAAD instead of EAHP’s usual social media toolkit for the EAAD

EPHA – AMR thematic network on AMR (health policy platform)

  • EAHP engaged in this group
  • No activities in the past months
  • SK will report back during the Board meeting on the ideas for new activities

NEW (added on 23/9) – AMR project proposal EU Health Annual Work Programme | DECISION NEEDED

  • SA received a request from EU JAMRAI regarding the participation of EAHP in an AMR project (see call to action HERE | see email HERE)
  • SA will report during the Board meeting 

Vaccination

Vaccination summit

  • NM attended the high level meeting
  • Information about the outcomes will be shared via the EU Monitor

Meeting of the Coalition on Vaccination

  • EAHP joined the Coalition on Vaccination in July
  • NM attended a meeting in September and will report back during the Board meeting

ENSO request | DECISION NEEDED

  • Ber asked before the summer if an EAHP representative wants to be involved in the review of the AMR/vaccination guide
  • Progress is slow within ESNO so it is difficult to assess at the moment when the review would take place
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EAHP Forum

All the EAHP team is working on providing a Forum that can help connect all the members in Conversations and Groups to talk about important matters for the European Hospital Pharmacist.

The Forum will be accessible for all the EAHP members, you don’t have to create a new account to browse and participate.

Conversations and groups

The Conversations will be moderated by our team to provide documents and relevant topics for the community.

The Groups will connect all members that share a category. Members who work on the same assocation, on the same hospital, that have the same role, etc.

Stay tuned for the realase of the forum. Soon on EAHP.