Many of us are active on facebook, LinkedIn, twitter … but how should we act there? Where should we post what kind of posts? The communication committee on behalf of the general committee published the social media guidelines of the ESCP online. Have a look at our...

The Education Committee is looking for a new member with experience in Education and Training who is committed to supporting ESCP in its mission and vision to advance Education and Training in Europe. Committee members are ESCP members and are expected to bring their broad experience to support development of scientific content, organisation,...

The ESCP research grant winners from 2016 have just published their study in PLos One. This collaborative work, which involved researchers from the UK, Ireland and Malta, was a systematic review of the methodological approaches used to assess clinical outcomes of pharmacy-based management of minor ailments. The main finding was that the...

Receiving care in multiple health care settings often means that patients obtain medication from different prescribers. Unfortunately, medication information is often poorly documented and poorly transferred between health care settings which introduces the risk on drug-related problems (DRPs). Previous studies often focused at medication...

Medication safety and rational pharmacotherapy using specific disease and patient characteristics are central aspects in current healthcare practice. With increasing knowledge of different factors influencing pharmacotherapy, CDS is becoming increasingly important as an aid to reach optimal outcomes for the individual patient. CDS systems can...

The next ESCP annual symposium in Heidelberg is only days away. To get you into the right mood, we took a look at the current situation of clinical pharmacy in Germany and present you the two symposium presidents; Hanna Seidling and Ulrich Jaehde. This article was first published in the...

Current challenges in pharmacy practice include the normalisation of pharmacy services into routine healthcare practice. Existing frameworks for health program planning provide robust guidelines for developing, implementing and evaluating health interventions and services and so can help to overcome existing challenges. Pharmacy services are...