The International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy (IJCP) has announced that Professor Derek Stewart has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief with effect from 1 January this year.
I write these words in my first few weeks of being President of ESCP to introduce myself and to wish you a very prosperous 2021.
ESCP research committee have published their study on the impact of COVID-19 on clinical pharmacy services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study findings, published in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy showed that pharmacists...
With deepest sadness we have to announce to you that Foppe van Mill, ESCP fellow, passed away last Saturday. It is almost impossible to describe what Foppe brought for clinical pharmacy in general and ESCP in more specific.
The International Spring Workshop of the ESCP will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, from 26 - 27 April 2021.
The European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) and the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) announce a call for examples of Clinical and Hospital Pharmacy Services for COVID19 patients valuable to share. Summarize your activities in a 2-3 minute self-made video to be shared online with your colleagues across Europe.
With great regret we have to inform you that the General Committee has decided to postpone the ESCP-autumn Symposium 2020 in Lisbon to October 2021. Continuing with organizing our symposium will result in too much uncertainties with respect to safety, finances and number of participants.
The ESCP realizes that we are in extraordinary times with a COVID-19 virus affecting our private and working life. Many people, including clinical pharmacists, are working to control the virus and its consequences.
International experts in anticoagulation launch an interprofessional Guideline to support patients receiving oral therapy. iPACT (International Pharmacists for Anticoagulation Care Taskforce) made 18 recommendations in the new Guideline, providing the base for optimization of oral anticoagulation care for patients across different countries and...
ESCP is awarding financial support to attend the 48th Symposium of European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP) in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 23-25 October 2019. ESCP actively promotes the education of clinical pharmacists from developing countries. One way of doing this is to make the ESCP Symposium more accessible to...
Everybody is talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and whether computer algorithms will take over the jobs of pharmacists, physicians, and other healthcare professionals. The new book Pharmaceutical Care in Digital Revolution by pharmacist Claudia Rijcken offers a refreshing new perspective: How to combine the...
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...
Every two years, ESCP awards a research grant which aims to allow the recipients to undertake research that has the potential to advance clinical pharmacy in Europe. The grant is open to all ESCP members and affiliated with organisations based in Europe. The ESCP research grant for 2018 was awarded to a submission led by Dr Katie MacLure of...
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...
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