Bar coded unit doses
During the 2006 EAHP general assembly, the members of the association gave the mandate to EAHP Board and staff to advocte for bar coded unit doses for hospitals, to be produced at the European level by the pharmaceutical industry.
The EAHP position and statement were drafted and distributed to European Commission representatives and some targetted Members of the European Parliament. On the occasion of a public consultation on Patient Safety, the EAHP statement and call for action was sent to Commissioner Androula Vassiliou and her head of Directorate General (DG) Health and Consumers (SANCO). The statement was published in the European Journal of Hospital Pharmacists, EJHP and further discussed with EU officers working in the field of patient safety on numerous occasions, by Catherine Hartmann, Executive Director of the EAHP.
The latter also presented the request for bar-coded unit doses to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry (EFPIA), the European Industrial Pharmacists Group (EIPG), the GS1, the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), the European Federation of Nurses (EFN) and the European Patient Forum (EPF).
