My favourite journal is the EJHP - European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy http://www.eahponline.com/asp/ejhp.asp?m=4.
This journal is published by the EAHP -European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (http://www.eahponline.org).
In each issue there is a special article/s under the name “Country Focus” and these are the articles I read first of all. Many times I have to remember what is happening in various European countries in a specific area of Hospital Pharmacy and I have to find the corresponding issue of the journal. So, I decided to gather all the links from the journal, concerning my favourite articles from the “Country Focus” and now I can read my article directly from the website of the journal.
And here they are, the links for the following countries (according the date of their appearance in the "country focus" section of the EJHP:
FRANCE, NORWAY, ITALY, HUNGARY, NETHERLANDS, SWISS, SWEDEN, GERMANY, SPAIN, SLOVENIA, DENMARK, BELGIUM, AUSTRIA, UNITED KINGDOM, SLOVAKIA, PORTUGAL, FINLAND
FRANCE
Country Focus France
Year: 2002; Nr: 1; Category: Others;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p42+43.pdf
Country Focus France
Year: 2002; Nr: 1; Category: Others;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p35-40.pdf
NORWAY
Country Focus Norway
Year: 2002; Nr: 2; Category: Others;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/43to49.pdf
ITALY
SIFO, the Italian national association representing the interests of hospital pharmacy and pharmaceutical services
Year: 2003; Nr: 1; Category: Others; Author: Samy Bouayad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p40-41.pdf
The Italian health system: origins and perspectives
Year: 2003; Nr: 1; Category: Others; Author: Samy Bouayad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p37-38.pdf
Caught between regionalisation and cost containment Where do the cost/effectiveness boundaries lie for the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale?
Year: 2003; Nr: 1; Category: Others; Author: Samy Bouayad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p44a48.pdf
European Association of Hospital Pharmacists Annual Congress 2003, 26 – 28 February, Florence, Italy
Year: 2003; Nr: 1; Category: Others; Author: Arnold G. Vulto;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p50-51(1).pdf
Florence, a city of history and elegance
Year: 2003; Nr: 1; Category: Others; Author: Samy Bouayad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p52a54.pdf
HUNGARY
Hungarian country focus
Year: 2003; Nr: 2; Category: Others; Author: Thomas Friedrich;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p32a35.pdf
NETHERLANDS
The Dutch approach to medication safety
Year: 2003; Nr: 3; Category: Others; Author: Judith Hague;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p52.pdf
The Netherlands Hospital Pharmacy - an introduction
Year: 2003; Nr: 3; Category: Others; Author: Judith Hague;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p43-45.pdf
Bridging the gap between back-office skills and patient-oriented pharmacy: practice and tradition of Dutch hospital pharmacy
Year: 2003; Nr: 3; Category: Others; Author: Mathieu M. Tjoeng, Robert J. Moss;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p46.pdf
The medicines policy in the Netherlands
Year: 2003; Nr: 3; Category: Others;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p50-51.pdf
Pharmaceutical care in Dutch hospitals
Year: 2003; Nr: 3; Category: Others; Author: L.A. van den Bemt;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p56.pdf
The hospital pharmacist and immunotherapeutic clinical trials
Year: 2003; Nr: 3; Category: Others; Author: A.R. Wafelman;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p57.pdf
Hospital pharmacists recognised by the authorities as specialists
Year: 2003; Nr: 3; Category: Others; Author: Eric W. Ackerman;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p58-59.pdf
SWISS
Emphasis on Personal Responsibility / The Swiss Health System
Year: 2003; Nr: 4; Category: Others; Author: Christiane von Ludwig;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/P51.pdf
The GSASA / Professional Association of Swiss Public Health Administration and Hospital Pharmacists
Year: 2003; Nr: 4; Category: Others; Author: Dr.Enea Martinelli;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/P52-53.pdf
The Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical industry
Year: 2003; Nr: 4; Category: Others; Author: Samy Bouayad & Judith Hague;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/P54-55(1).pdf
Swissmedic: the Swiss Institute of Therapeutic Products
Year: 2003; Nr: 4; Category: Others; Author: Samy Bouayad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/56.pdf
Interview with Dr Klaus-Jorg Dogwiler, Director of Swissmedic
Year: 2003; Nr: 4; Category: Others; Author: Samy Bouayad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/P58.pdf
The pharmaceutical market within Switzerland
Year: 2003; Nr: 4; Category: Others; Author: Samy Bouayad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/P59.pdf
The Swiss medicines pricing policy
Year: 2003; Nr: 4; Category: Others; Author: Samy Bouayad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/60-61.pdf
Relations between the European Union and Switzerland in the pharmaceutical area
Year: 2003; Nr: 4; Category: Others; Author: Helicia Herman;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/P63.pdf
A Working Day in Hospital
Year: 2003; Nr: 4; Category: Others; Author: J.-Ph.Reymond;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/P64.pdf
SWEDEN
User Fees for Health Care in Sweden A two-tier threat or a tool for solidarity?
Year: 2003; Nr: 5; Category: Others; Author: Johan Hjertqvist;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p47-4%5B1%5D(1).pdf
Hospital pharmacy in Sweden
Year: 2003; Nr: 5; Category: Others; Author: Astrid Forsstrom, Birgitta Seiving;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p4%5B1%5D.pdf
Sweden - healthcare in transition
Year: 2003; Nr: 5; Category: Others; Author: Astrid Forsstrom,Birgitta Seiving;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p4%5B2%5D.pdf
The Swedish Society for Hospital Pharmacy
Year: 2003; Nr: 5; Category: Others; Author: Astrid Forsstrom, Birgitta Seiving;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p4%5B4%5D.pdf
Changing attitudes to generic drugs
Year: 2003; Nr: 5; Category: Others; Author: Judith Hague;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p4%5B3%5D.pdf
GERMANY
Detecting medication errors in order To protect patients
Year: 2003; Nr: 6; Category: Others; Author: Dr.Torsten Hoppe-Tichy;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p65.pdf
Changes imminent in health Insurance sector
Year: 2003; Nr: 6; Category: Others; Author: Edgar J. Schmitt;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p51to52(2).pdf
Adka e.v. – german association of Hospital pharmacists Insurance sector
Year: 2003; Nr: 6; Category: Others; Author: Dr. Irene Kramer;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p53to56.pdf
The hospital pharmacy: providing Services on behalf of patients
Year: 2003; Nr: 6; Category: Others; Author: Dr. Irene Kramer;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p57to58.pdf
New financing system for German hospitals
Year: 2003; Nr: 6; Category: Others; Author: Dr.Wolfgang Kammerer;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p60to61.pdf
Studying pharmacy in Germany
Year: 2003; Nr: 6; Category: Others; Author: Prof. Roland Ratziwill;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p64(1).pdf
Consultation and integration: the daily routine of a chief pharmacist
Year: 2003; Nr: 6; Category: Others; Author: Dr. H. P. Lipp;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/p66.pdf
SPAIN
Association of Spanish Hospital Pharmacists (SEFH) (www.sefh.es)
Year: 2004; Nr: 1; Category: Country focus; Page: 73; Author: Dr Placido J. Moreno;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/FocusSpain%20p73.pdf
The Spanish health system
Year: 2004; Nr: 1; Category: Country focus; Page: 74 -75; Author: Samy Bouayad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/FocusSpain%20p74to75.pdf
The Educational System for Hospital Pharmacists in Spain
Year: 2004; Nr: 1; Category: Country focus; Page: 76 -77; Author: Francisco Sierra Garcia, Hospital Pharmacist, Pharmacy Department, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/FocusSpain%20p76to77.pdf
A day in a Spanish hospital pharmacy
Year: 2004; Nr: 1; Category: Country focus; Page: 78; Author: Jose Javier Marquez Nieves, Farmaceutico de Hospital, Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/FocusSpain%20p78.pdf
The benefits of automated dispensing in hospital pharmacy
Year: 2004; Nr: 1; Category: Cover story; Page: 22 -23; Author: Keith Farrar, Director of Pharmacy, Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, Ann Slee, Chief Pharmacist, Glan Clwyd Hospital;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/CoverStory%20p22to23.pdf
Bar-coding in action in the hospital pharmacy - a report
Year: 2004; Nr: 1; Category: Cover story; Page: 24 -26; Author: Dr. Werner Kittlaus, Director of the Central Pharmacy of the District Hospitals of Munich and Monika Kaniuth, Pharmacist in Training;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/CoverStory%20p24to26.pdf
Automated drug distribution system: the Cromwell Hospital experience
Year: 2004; Nr: 1; Category: Cover story; Page: 27; Author: Dr. Henry McCullagh, BSc(Pharm), MRPharmS, Chief Pharmacist, Cromwell Hospital;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/CoverStory%20p27.pdf
SLOVENIA
Recent changes in the Slovenian health care system
Year: 2004; Nr: 2; Category: Country focus; Page: 52; Author: Mladen Markota;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/FocusSlovenia1.pdf
Slovenian Association of Hospital Pharmacy
Year: 2004; Nr: 2; Category: Country focus; Page: 53; Author: Tajda Miharija Gala;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/FocusSlovenia2.pdf
New responsibilities, new challenges for hospital pharmacists
Year: 2004; Nr: 2; Category: Country focus; Page: 54 -55; Author: Tajda Miharija Gala;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/FocusSlovenia3.pdf
Faculty of pharmacy, Ljubljana: study programmes
Year: 2004; Nr: 2; Category: Country focus; Page: 56; Author: Dr. Mirjana Gasperlin;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/FocusSlovenia4.pdf
Development of radiopharmacy practise + Individualised preparation of analgesics
Year: 2004; Nr: 2; Category: Country focus; Page: 57; Author: Tanja Gmeiner Stopar + Monica Sonc;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/FocusSlovenia5.pdf
DENMARK
Hospital Pharmacy Practice in Denmark
Year: 2004; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 57 -59; Author: Anne H. Kahns and Gitte Nielsen;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/57%20E3%20FocusDenmark.pdf
The Danish Society of Hospital Pharmacy Managers
Year: 2004; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 60; Author: Connie Sorensen;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/60%20E3%20FocusDenmark.pdf
The Medicines Agency of Danish Regions - manufacturing medicinal products at hospital pharmacies
Year: 2004; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 61; Author: Lilly Krogsgaard, M.Sc.Pharm. Assistant Director, Registration Manager, the Medicines Agency of the Danish Regions, Denmark.;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/61%20E3%20FocusDenmark.pdf
Patient safety in Denmark: A healthcare system that is learning
Year: 2004; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 62; Author: Linda Jeffery;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/62%20E3%20FocusDenmark.pdf
Cross sector recommendation lists promoting rational pharmacotherapy
Year: 2004; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 63; Author: Nina Egtved Knudsen;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/63%20E3%20FocusDenmark.pdf
Electronic prescribing in hospitals: the role and responsibility of hospital pharmacists
Year: 2004; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 64; Author: Inger Bjeldbak-Olesen;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/64%20E3%20FocusDenmark.pdf
Automatic drug dispensing in Aarhus County - Planning and preparations
Year: 2004; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 66 -67; Author: Karen Marie Ostergaard;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/66%20E3%20FocusDenmark.pdf
Rational pharmacotherapy in daily clinical practice + Continuing education and career development in oncology pharmacy in Denmark
Year: 2004; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 68 -70; Author: Anne Kahns and Dorte Kromann + Hilde Omestad;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/68%20E3%20FocusDenmark.pdf
BELGIUM
Country Focus Belgium (complete). Year: 2004; Nr: 4; Category: Country focus; Page: 45 -56;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/45_56%20E4%20FocusBelgium.pdf
AUSTRIA
The Austrian Health Care System
Year: 2004; Nr: 5; Category: Country focus; Page: 51 -52; Author: Elfriede Dolinar Mag. Pharm.;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/E5%20p51%20focus.pdf
Hospital Pharmacy in Austria
Year: 2004; Nr: 5; Category: Country focus; Page: 53; Author: Thomas Langebner;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/E5%20p53%20focus.pdf
The Austrian Association of Hospital Pharmacists
Year: 2004; Nr: 5; Category: Country focus; Page: 54; Author: Thomas Langebner;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/E5%20p54%20focus.pdf
Radiopharmacy
Year: 2004; Nr: 5; Category: Country focus; Page: 56; Author: Dr. Markus Mitterhauser;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/E5%20p56%20focus.pdf
Postgraduate Specialisation
Year: 2004; Nr: 5; Category: Country focus; Page: 57; Author: Thomas Langebner;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/E5%20p57%20focus.pdf
UNITED KINGDOM
The United Kingdom and the ‘National Health Service’
Year: 2004; Nr: 6; Category: Country focus; Page: 121; Author: Tony West;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/121%20focus%20UK%20%20E6.pdf
The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
Year: 2004; Nr: 6; Category: Country focus; Page: 122; Author: Tony West;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/122%20focus%20UK%20%20E6.pdf
Pharmacy in a devolved United Kingdom
Year: 2004; Nr: 6; Category: Country focus; Page: 123 -124; Author: Vilma Gilis;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/123%20focus%20UK%20%20E6.pdf
NHS Direct: A fast moving service
Year: 2004; Nr: 6; Category: Country focus; Page: 125 -126; Author: Anne Joshua;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/125%20focus%20UK%20%20E6.pdf
Purchasing safer medicines for the NHS – risk management in pharmaceutical procurement
Year: 2004; Nr: 6; Category: Country focus; Page: 127; Author: Andrew C Alldred;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/127%20focus%20UK%20%20E6.pdf
SLOVAKIA
Hospital pharmacy in Slovakia
Year: 2005; Nr: 1; Category: Country focus; Page: 35 -36; Author: Juraj Sykora, PharmD., PhD;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/035%20Slovakia%202.pdf
The health care system in Slovakia
Year: 2005; Nr: 1; Category: Country focus; Page: 35; Author: Pharm.Dr. Juraj Sykora, PhD and Mgr. Roman Maas;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/035%20Slovakia.pdf
Education and training of pharmacists in Slovakia
Year: 2005; Nr: 1; Category: Country focus; Page: 36; Author: Silvia Szucsova, PhD,Associate Professor;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/036%20Slovakia.pdf
Expenditure on drugs and (diagnostic) medical devices in hospitals in Slovakia
Year: 2005; Nr: 1; Category: Country focus; Page: 37; Author: Pharm.Dr. Juraj Sykora;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/037%20Slovakia.pdf
Cancer care and the extent of use of antineoplastic agents
Year: 2005; Nr: 1; Category: Country focus; Page: 38 -39; Author: Mgr. Roman Maas and Juraj Sykora, PharmD, PhDr
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/038%20Slovakia.pdf
PORTUGAL
The Portuguese health system
Year: 2005; Nr: 2; Category: Country focus; Page: 31; Author: Aida Batista;
>http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/031%20Portugal.pdf
Hospital pharmacy in Portugal
Year: 2005; Nr: 2; Category: Country focus; Page: 32 -33; Author: Hospital pharmacy in Portugal;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/032%20Portugal.pdf
The Portuguese Association of Hospital Pharmacists
Year: 2005; Nr: 2; Category: Country focus; Page: 34; Author: Jorge Brochado ;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/034%20Portugal.pdf
5th Congress of the Portuguese Association of Hospital Pharmacists
Year: 2005; Nr: 2; Category: Country focus; Page: 36; Author: Antonio Melo Gouveia, PhD;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/036%20Portugal.pdf
FINLAND
Medicines in healthcare in Finland
Year: 2005; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 47 -48; Author: Harri Ovaskainen, Marja Airaksinen and Ulla Narhi;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/Finland047.pdf
Hospital pharmacy in Finland
Year: 2005; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 49 -50; Author: Marisa Eronen, Jaana Lehtomaki and Merja Nylander;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/Finland049.pdf
Progress in medicines information services
Year: 2005; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 52 -53; Author: Raimo Ojala, M.Sc. (Pharm);
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/Finland052.pdf
A pilot electronic prescription system scheme in Helsinki
Year: 2005; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 54; Author: Kirsi Niiranen, M. Sc. Pharm.;
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/Finland054.pdf
Finnish Hospital Pharmacists Association
Year: 2005; Nr: 3; Category: Country focus; Page: 55; Author: Heli Leskinen B.Sc. (Pharm.);
http://www.eahponline.org/upload/ejhp/Finland055.pdf
