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The European Commission adopted a Green Paper on the EU workforce for health

Commission launches a public consultation on the future of Europe's workforce for health.The European Commission adopted a green paper on the EU workforce for health. This marks the beginning of a consultation period which aims to identify common responses to the many challenges facing the health workforce in Europe.

There are a number of challenges facing health systems in Europe. People are living longer, new technology is making it possible to increase the range and quality of, often, expensive treatments. There are new and re-emerging threats to health eg from communicable diseases and citizens have ever-rising expectations about having access to the best possible healthcare.

Developing effective and efficient health systems able to respond to the challenges they face depends to a considerable extent on having a high-quality health workforce of sufficient capacity and with the right skills, and for the European Union that means throughout the Member States.

In light of the fact that Member States are facing a number of common problems with their health workforces, there is much to be gained by promoting cooperation and common approaches between the Member States. The European Community can add value by supporting this.

The aim of the Green Paper is to increase the visibility of these issues, to generate a clearer picture of the extent to which local and/or national health managers face the same challenges and to engage stakeholders in the debate so as to help those responsible across Europe to address these problems effectively.

The public consultation process sets out to obtain stakeholders' views on a wide range of issues connected with the healthcare workforce and preparing for the care of an ageing population. The results of the consultation will feed in to our consideration of what the EU can do to support Member States in tackling these challenges.

Sources

http://ec.europa.eu/health-eu/newsletter/27/newsletter_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_systems/workforce_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_systems/docs/workforce_gp_en.pdf

President of EAHP, Jacqueline Surugue, honoured with esteemed Donald E. Francke Medal

European Association of Hospital Pharmacists
EAHP, Rue Abbé Cuypers, 3, B - 1040 Brussels, Belgium


EAHP PRESS RELEASE

12 December 2008


President of EAHP, Jacqueline Surugue, honoured with esteemed Donald E. Francke Medal at ASHP Mid-Year Clinical Meeting in Orlando this week.

Jacqueline Surugue, President of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP), was awarded the prestigious Donald E. Francke Medal at the opening ceremony of the 43rd Mid-Year Clinical Meeting of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) in Orlando, Florida, USA on December 8th 2008.

“Jacqueline Surugue’s efforts to advance the profession serve as an inspiration to health system pharmacists around the world. It is an honour to recognise her hard work and dedication with the Donald E. Francke Medal” said ASHP President, Kevin J. Colgan, M. A., FASHP.

The Donald E. Francke Award was established by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists in 1971 to honour individuals who have made significant contributions to international pharmacy practice. Since that date, it has only been awarded 12 times. Jacqueline Surugue is the 4th European, the second woman, and the first French pharmacist to receive this prestigious distinction. Her address, as this year’s award recipient, was entitled “Going global”.

Jacqueline Surugue has been a key leader in making the EAHP a cohesive force for advancing hospital pharmacy in Europe. She has worked passionately to ensure that the 21,000 hospital pharmacists in Europe have a voice in the important healthcare discussions taking place within the European Union. She has also led efforts to professionalize EAHP operations, building an expert staff of association management professionals based in Brussels, Belgium, the headquarters of the European Union.

Jacqueline Surugue is currently chief of the pharmacy department of Centre Hospitalier Georges Renon, a 1200 bed hospital in Niort, France. In addition, she is a pharmacy lecturer at the University of Angers. In 2006, she was elected vice president of the Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique (FIP) Hospital Section and is an elected member of the National Council of the French Order of Pharmacists. Since 2007, she has served on the Council of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE).

ASHP is a society of 35,000 members including pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, as well as, pharmacy students who practice in hospital settings within the USA.

For information, visit www.ashp.org

* The picture is a courtesy of ASHP

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Sources

http://www.pharmacyeurope.net/default.asp

http://iguard.org/help/patients/