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.
Draft austerity statement
Draft austerity statement April 2013
Further to previous draft of September 2013, responding to member association concerns about this issue.
The statement is designed to assist EAHP enter the European level debate on this issue. It deals with medicines pricing trends, hospital pharmacy staffing, hospital pharmacist training and development opportunities and threats to investment. It also makes suggestion about how hospital pharmacists can help to meet austerity statements.
The overall tone of the statement is to suggest to policy makers smarter and longer term thinking is required to how to enable sustainable health systems which includes increasing hospital pharmacist roles.
Issues for Board consideration include:
- Is it appropriate for EAHP to make recommendations to "national governments"?
- Can we be more robust than "sensible staffing levels" and "reasonable levels of capital investment"?
- How much do we wish to say on the medicines pricing issue?
Otherwise Board comments on wording, structure, content and references is welcomed, as well as any possible case studies of austerity effects.
Timeline:
Sunday 21st April: discussion of the statement in the Board
Week of 22nd April: further draft of statement to be circulated taking account of comments received
Sunday 28th April: further comments from Board to be received
Wednesday 1 May: draft statement to be issued to members for review and potential amendment/addition