Present:- ML. Bisacy, W. Broekema, M. De Vos, M. Leech, M. Martin, F. Mathot, L. Mijssens, J. Peters, J. Reyntens, B. Schueler, J. Surugue, C. Van de Eynde, & G. Wildeshaus.
Apologies: J. Donoghue, M. Haberg & P.F. Livio.
Presence of Hospital Pharmacist in Psychiatric Hospitals.
|
Scotland |
France |
Holland |
German |
Ireland |
Norway |
Belgium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Legal |
NO |
YES |
NO |
NO |
YES |
YES |
YES |
Real |
YES |
YES |
-- |
-- |
YES |
YES |
YES |
Tasks |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Distribution and manufacturing |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
Drug Monitoring |
YES |
-- |
YES |
NO |
YES |
NO |
NO |
Clinical Pharmacy |
YES |
-- |
-- |
NO |
YES |
-- |
-- |
Organisation |
YES |
YES |
-- |
NO |
YES |
YES |
YES |
Post University Specialisation in Psychiatric Pharmacy |
YES |
NO |
NO |
NO |
NO |
NO |
YES |
Clinical pharmacy is in the future for the psychiatric hospital pharmacist.
Political way:
Promoting the psychiatric pharmacy and the value of pharmacists
The EAHP is the most convenient platform to achieve the goals of the psychiatric pharmacy group.
- 4 goals of the EAHP
- lobby centre of the European Commission
- we can reach many pharmacist in each country, by the journal of the EAHP, because there is no individual membership - the national associations are members.
*Therefore the psychiatric hospital pharmacy group wants to create a psychiatric group in the EAHP under the name EAHP - PSY.
It will be discussed by J. Surugue with the responsible of the EAHP. The proposition of the organisation of a psychiatric group shall be a point on the agenda of the general assembly of the EAHP.
*The first political goals for the EAHP-PSY. group are:
- minimum one hospital pharmacist in each psychiatric hospital.
- core activities for the psychiatric pharmacy all over Europe, recognised by the European Commission.
- organisation of post-unversity courses in each country with unformisation of the content and of the certificate.
*A paper about the existence and the goals of the EAHP-PSY. shall be written by F. Mathot and J. Reyntens and published in the EAHP journal.
*Possibility to participate to a symposium on the EAHP congress in Edingbrough (March 1998). There is a problem about the cost. Discussion with EAHP board by J.Surugue.
Scientific Way:
a) It is important that the psychiatric hospital pharmacist is recognised as a specialist in biological psychiatry and clinical pharmacy by other professionals, in casu the psychiatrists and the general managers. Therefore we must co-operator as EAHP-PSY with the CINP (collegium international neuro-psychofamacologicum) and the ECNP (European College of Neuropsychopharmacology).
The first goal is to participate in an active way at the congress of the CINP in the year 200 in Brussels.
b) Co-operation about clinical research and especially drug utilisation review must be considered.
- There is a need of having a newsletter between the members of the group, with some interesting information about projects of psychiatric pharmacists and there associations in each country, congresses.
It would not be a newsletter with scientific papers. Contact person is F. Mathot.
- The co-ordination of the EAHP-PSY. will be done by J. Reyntens and F. Mathot.
- Next meeting: Lille (France) on 22-23rd November 1997.
Each participant pays his own cost.
J. Surugue will organise this meeting and will contact different associations of other countries.
Each delegate expressed the wish and the hope that this group will become the active co-ordination cell of the psychiatric pharmacy in Europe.
a) EAPH-PSY. - organisation
b) Post-university courses
c) Scientific corporation
d) CINP congress 2000
e) European Commission - psychiatric pharmacy
f) Opening web-site Internet:
- report
- Board
g) Various
Johan Reytens
When the UKPPG conference became
international,a group of psychiatric pharmacists from across
the world, under the "guiding hand" of Steve
Bazire, met together at Latimer House to compare strengths
and weaknesses of the services provided. Last year it was
suggested that the European pharmacists formed a group to
meet to discuss the issues and to agree a forum for raising
the profile of psychiatric hospital pharmacy in Europe.
The Belgian psychiatric pharmacists took the initiative and set up the above meeting in Brussels with 15 pharmacists attending from Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland. Apologies were received from England, Norway and Switzerland.
Prior to the meeting, Johan Reyntens (Belgium) circulated a questionnaire evaluating the legal and real situation with a variety of issues including the number of pharmacists per hospital bed, types of services provided, official organisations and post-graduate specialisation opportunities.
The meeting began with introductions followed by an analysis of the situations in the different countries and comparison of the real and legal situations. Prior to the meeting, I had had difficulty with the "legal" concept as applied to, for example, the number of pharmacists per hospital bed. It was, however, fascinating to learn that:-
Core activities for psychiatric pharmacy were then identified as a goal to aim for including distribution, prescription review, labelling of all prescriptions by pharmacists (not nurses), pharmacokinetic interpretation, medicine rationalisation and clinical pharmacy.
In the second session, an action plan was drawn up to
remedy the shortcomings. After discussion, it was decided to
investigate becoming a specialist group of the European
Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP).
Discussion of postgraduate courses was postponed to
the next meeting and it was then proposed to have a workshop
on psychiatry at a scientific session of a future
congress, most probably in the year 2000 in Brussels. In 1998
it is "all happening" in Scotland but it was agreed
it was not the easiest or cheapest place to gather.
Fernand Mathot of Liege agreed to produce a group newsletter and formal elections to the committee were postponed to the next meeting to take place in Lille, France, in November 1997.
The meeting was extremely interesting with such a variety of areas of expertise and it was agreed that we all can learn a lot from each other. My thanks to the Belgian Psychiatric Pharmacists for their hospitality (those Belgian chocolates were my undoing!) and for making the event truly European in the most appropriate country - the centre of the European Community.
Morag Martin,
Principal Pharmacist Clinical Services,
Greater Glasgow Community and Mental Health Services NHS Trust.
6/97
