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.
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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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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.
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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.
This is a cumulative summary of the main tasks carried out by the EAHP Secretariat and the different CTF Working Groups (WGs) since the April Board meeting. This is also an outline of the main next steps that will be carried out by the different Working Groups.
The Steering Committee was updated in July on the outcomes of the GA and the meeting with Sophie Weisswange in May 2018 (see report HERE). The Committee suggested to consider looking at the evidence collected through WG2. In addition, a briefing document on the Proportionality Directive was requested which is currently being prepared.
WG1 had a conference call in early September to kick-off the work under their new chair Rahul Singal. The group discussed its new direction (i.e. education and training) during the face-to-face meeting in September. The policy team will work in close cooperation with Rahul to prepare this meeting.
During a conference call between Ian Bates, Roberto Frontini, JP, PH, SK and GML it was decided to revive WG2 again to help with the collection of evidence needed for the CTF application (i.e. evidence showing that hospital pharmacy intervention improves patient outcomes). The following former WG members (Roberto Frontini, László Horvath, Nenad Milijkovic, Jos Kosterink, Jose Manuel Martinez) expressed interest to join a ‘renewed’ WG2. Ian Bates has been informed. The policy team is currently waiting on his feedback to start planning a kick-off conference call.
WG3 will continue to work on the outreach campaign (contacting national associations + national competent authorities in collaboration with national associations). The group will meet on 13th October (also together with WG4 – see below). During the face-to-face meeting the delivery of the deliverables will be planned.
With the presentation of the strategic proposal at the GA, CTF WG4 finished its activity. Due to the strong motivation of the group, it was decided to merge WG4 with WG3.
Endorsements were received from the following member associations: Italy, Spain, France, Malta, Latvia, Romania, Estonia, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Finland. Sweden and Switzerland cannot endorse the CTF at the moment.
The Steering Committee was briefed about EAHP’s plan to organise a meeting with national competent authorities during Congress to discuss CTF (and to answer to any concerns/questions they might have). The following options were presented to the committee
Option 2 was favoured. Consequently, 19 countries + Ireland will be invited to the meeting. The policy team is currently collecting contact details of national representatives from our members. The invitation should be sent out in late September/early October.
The meeting with representatives of national competent authorities should take place on Tuesday 26th March 2019, after the March Board meeting. Usually the Board meeting last until 13.00 + an hour lunch afterwards. Consequently, we could start with the ‘registration of participants’ from 14.00 to 14.30. The meeting itself could begin at 14.30 and last until 17.30.
Provided all representatives attend we will have 35 PAX present at the meeting (20 country representatives, 10 Board members, 5 office (COO, Deputy, policy team). In terms of setting up the room we have the following options:
