On 7 November 2018, EAHP released the
results of its 2018 Medicines Shortages Survey. The launch event of the
report summarising the findings from the largest pan-Europe survey on
medicines supply shortages took place at the Press Club in Brussels.
The results of the 2018 Medicines Shortages Survey underline that medicines shortages remain a major
problem for patients in European hospitals. In a number of ways the
issues have become more troublesome since the publication of EAHP’s last
survey results in 2014. In particular the percentage of hospital
pharmacists reporting shortages to be an issue in terms of delivering
the best care to patients has seen a significant increase with 91.8%
respondents, compared to 86.2% in 2014, stressing that medicines
shortages are a problem faced in their hospital pharmacy.
Many hospital pharmacists highlighted
the need for more timely and accurate information on medicines
shortages. EAHP is consequently calling on all supply chain actors, the
European Commission and national governments to help improve the
collection of information about medicines shortages in Europe. Only a
comprehensive communication strategy on shortages targeting all European
states will ensure that all supply chain actors, including hospital
pharmacists, receive adequate information on the shortage of medicines
in their countries.
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Results from the 2018 Medicines Shortages Survey
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The report is available HERE
The information of the report is also summarised for:
- France (leaflet is available HERE),
- Germany (leaflet is available HERE),
- Italy (leaflet is available HERE),
- Spain (leaflet is available HERE) and the
- United Kingdom (leaflet is available HERE).
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