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.
Joan Peppard, President-elect of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP), has congratulated Leonidas Tzimis on taking up the position of co-chair for users in the Planning Committee of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE Pharmacy).
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is the organization that enables users and developers of information technology for healthcare to achieve interoperability of systems through the precise definition of healthcare tasks, the specification of standards-based communication between systems required to support those tasks and the testing of systems to determine that they conform to the specifications. The work is managed by IHE Committees and supported by various national and international bodies and among them EAHP.
The IHE-Europe Connectathon (http://connectathon.ihe-europe.net) provides a unique opportunity for vendors to test the interoperability of their products in a structured environment with peer vendors. Participants test against multiple vendors using real world clinical scenarios following IHE Integration Profiles specifications, across a variety of domains including Pharmacy, Radiology, Cardiology, Pathology, Patient Care Devices, Patient Care Coordination, Laboratory, and IT Infrastructure, along with those of their peer vendors. The next IHE European Connectathon will take place in Luxembourg, April 20-24, 2015.
Ms Peppard said: “For hospital pharmacy, as for any profession, you can either wait to be shaped by the future, or try to shape the future. Its with this in mind that our organisation takes a pro-active and engaged view when it comes to the challenges of future technology in the hospital pharmacy environment. There is so much opportunity for improvement out there, but we must be present and active in the debates and discussion to ensure the best outcomes are achieved. That’s why I’m delighted that, Leonidas Tzimis, our representative within IHE, is able to take up this leading position, and ensure hospital pharmacy is at the centre of developments in IT interoperability in European healthcare systems. On behalf of all at EAHP I thank him again for his leadership in this area and commitment to the task.”
Leonidas Tzimis said: “It’s a great honor to represent EAHP in such an interesting and promising organisation, together with the other members of the EAHP-Webgroup, Jacqueline Surugue and Simon Letellier. IHE Pharmacy addresses information sharing, workflow and patient care in both community and hospital pharmacies. The domain currently plans work in the following areas: Improve information exchange between healthcare providers and organizations that depend on pharmacy-related workflows and processes, develop ways to automate collaborative workflow between physicians and pharmacists, promote widespread adoption and implementation of IHE Pharmacy profiles in Europe, North America, Asia and worldwide. The integration of all the health domains is an uncharted territory and IHE Pharmacy, the vendors, the users and among them, EAHP, are the pioneers to draw the new map.”
Leonidas Tzimis is the head of hospital pharmacy at Chania General Hospital and head of the Greek delegation to EAHP since 1997.
