Webinars

We focus on education, communication and improving the practice of pharmacy in hospitals around the world and this includes the provision of webinars. Recent titles include:

• Hospital pharmacy practice & achievements in EMRO. What next?
• Role of the pharmacist in the management of heart failure.
• FIP Basel Statements – 2024 and beyond.
• Tips, tricks, technology, and transitions of care for tiny tots.
• Understanding the global pharmacy supply chain for hospital pharmacies.
• FIP Hospital Pharmacy Section strategy update.

Previous webinars are accessible to our members in the FIP Library. Use them to enhance your skills, confidence and ability to serve patients in health-systems around the world. You can also visit the FIP YouTube channel for more video content.

At the FIP congress

During the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, we organise a week-long programme, aligned with the overall congress topic and tailored for hospital pharmacists, including practitioners, researchers and leaders.

The FIP congress is also an important showcase for hospital pharmacists and we invite you to present your work, either as a short oral communication or a poster.

Our section’s annual steering committee meeting is also held during the congress. Participating in the congress gives you opportunities to benchmark, learn from colleagues from all over the world and make new friends. In addition to continuing education, there’s a lot of fun to be had at the HPS dinner, showcase and welcome reception.

Oral and Poster Presentation Awards

Short oral presentations and poster exhibitions based on received abstracts are a long-standing HPS tradition held during each FIP annual congress. All presentations will be carefully reviewed during the FIP congress and the top presentations will be selected to receive the HPS Oral and Poster Presentation Awards. The overall purpose of this award is to encourage hospital pharmacy research and development and the sharing of experiences and results with other pharmacists through high-quality presentations.

We are excited to announce the following winners and finalists of the HPS Oral and Poster Presentation Awards from the 2024 FIP World Congress:

Joint Winners of the Hospital Pharmacy Section Best Oral Presentation Award 2024

• Mrs Laura Wilson, United Kingdom, Presentation Title: Enhancing clinical hospital pharmacy services in Wales: An independent review and recommendations

• Mrs Katelyn Jauregui, Australia, Presentation Title: Patients’ experiences and acceptance of pharmacist-led opioid tapering prior to total hip or knee arthroplasty: A qualitative study

Runner-up of the Hospital Pharmacy Section Best Oral Presentation Award 2024

• Mrs Linda Valliant, Canada, Presentation Title: Towards enhanced performance assessment in hospital pharmacy practice: a comprehensive model and pilot project in Quebec, Canada

Finalists for the Hospital Pharmacy Section Best Oral Presentation Award 2024

• Dr Noraida Mohamed Shah, Malaysia, Presentation Title: Medication administration errors among neonates in the neonatal intensive care units

• Shinza Arshad, Pakistan, Presentation Title: Maximizing patient care and cost savings: The vital role of clinical pharmacists' interventions in a developing country

• Linda Krogh, Australia, Presentation Title: Pharmacie-Rural. Validation of a medication related readmission risk tool

• Rafael Felippi, United States of America, Presentation Title: Bi-directional texting for better outcomes: Enhancing patient safety and satisfaction beyond hospital walls

• Ms Hsiu-yu Chien, China Taiwan, Presentation Title: Optimizing elderly care: the vital role of pharmacists - Insights from Taipei Medical University Hospital

• Mrs Kristien Schutte, South Africa, Presentation Title: Improvement in pharmacist-initiated antimicrobial stewardship interventions following the implementation of a customized digital solution

• Dr Laurel Legenza, United States of America, Presentation Title: Survey of pharmacist involvement and needs for antimicrobial stewardship globally

Winner of the Hospital Pharmacy Section Best Poster Presentation Award 2024

• Dr Kieran Dalton, Ireland, Presentation Title: Pharmacist-led deprescribing of potentially inappropriate medications for cancer patients in a specialist palliative care setting

Finalists for the Hospital Pharmacy Section Best Poster Presentation Award 2024

• Mrs Maletje Griesel, South Africa, Presentation Title: A South African model for reducing specialised high-cost medication rejections: clinical pharmacists led interventions

• Mr Mpho Sylvester Mogale, South Africa, Presentation Title: Demand planning and forecasting to improve medicine availability in Limpopo Province, South Africa-operational research project

• Mrs Li-Ling Chu, China Taiwan, Presentation Title: Treatment response to Osimertinib following EGFR TKI Failure in NSCLC: A retrospective cohort study (2018-2023)

• Professor Manuel Morgado, Portugal, Presentation Title: SGLT2i and GLP1 RA effects in patients followed in a hospital diabetology consultation.

• Dr Charles Nii Ofei-Palm, Ghana, Presentation Title: Development, validation, and testing of the O-Palm tool for evaluating the economic significance and impact of pharmacist interventions in a teaching hospital in Ghana

• Dr. Michael Stepanovic, United States of America, Presentation Title: Enhancing global hospital pharmacy practice: The Brisbane update to the Basel Statements

• Mr Zongwei Tang, China, Presentation Title: Thromboembolic events associated with the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (VEGFR-TKIs): A pharmacovigilance study based on the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database

• Mrs Martine Vorster, South Africa, Presentation Title: Integrating self-reported adherence with clinical data in patients receiving antiretroviral therapy at a public hospital in North West Province, South Africa

• Dr Yanting Wang, China, Presentation Title: Niraparib-induced hematological toxicities and influencing factors: a real-world study in ovarian cancer patients in a tertiary specialized cancer hospital in China

• Mr Wong Wen Jun, China Taiwan, Presentation Title: Improving outpatient pharmacy dispensing processes through human factor engineering in Southern Taiwan Regional Hospital

• Mr Kingston Yeung, Australia, Presentation Title: Tools to identify patients at high risk of readmission with a focus on medication management: a systematic review

• Professor Areeg Shamsher, United Arab Emirates, Presentation Title: Assessment of Prospective Audit and Feedback Intervention on Antibiotic Stewardship Program in Surgical Prophylaxis at Secondary Care Hospital in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

Hospital Pharmacy Section outputs

Newsletters

To keep our members updated with the latest pharmacy practice discussions, research and HPS activities, we send out electronic newsletters every two months. We also welcome contributions to the HPS newsletter. Email: asst.secretary@fip-hps.org  

Basel Statements

The Basel Statements are a set of 65 statements reflecting the vision for hospital pharmacy practice and covering all areas of the medicine use process in hospitals, from procurement to monitoring. The Hospital Pharmacy Section has started a project to update and develop an implementation plan for the Basel Statements. The project team consists of Dr Jonathan Penm, Dr Stephen Eckel, Dr Régis Vaillancourt, Prof. Rebekah Moles, Dr Racha Dabliz, Dr Michael Stepanovic and Mr Robert Moss.

For more information on the Basel Statements, click here.

Preoperative Opioid Tapering Package

In 2024, a resource package was developed to inform a pharmacist-partnered opioid tapering service before elective surgery. This resource package summarises the key steps to tapering opioid analgesics before surgery. Additional resources describing principles of pain management, opioid tapering, and motivational interviewing are described.

The full resource is available here.

Research Grants

Dr Moteehat Olubukola Olu-Lawal (Nigeria) conducted research on “Pharmaceutical care interventions: A tool for building interprofessional collaboration in two public healthcare institutions in Osun State.” The findings of this research are available in the final report here.

Dr Titilayo Abidemi Onedo (Nigeria) conducted research on “Strengthening Hospital Pharmacy Practice In Nigeria Through The Adoption And Implementation Of The Revised (2014) FIP Basel Statements”. The findings of this research are available in the final report here.

Annual report

The HPS 2023 annual report is available here.
The HPS annual reports for 2020, 2021 and 2022 are also available.