Last month saw the much publicised European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) summit take place in Brussels. Over 100 delegates representing 34 European countries gathered to debate and discuss a series of statements about hospital pharmacy. The summit set out to develop a set of statements for hospital pharmacy that are relevant to Europe. These built on the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) global hospital pharmacy statement that was published in 2008.1 A full report of the meeting with papers on the underpinning methodology and the full statements will be published in a future issue of EJHP.

This was a well organised and managed event with the majority of the day-and-a-half of meetings being used to discuss and refine the proposed statements. Every delegate had the opportunity to discuss each statement in a café style meeting where delegates moved around a number of stations. The value of …

Correspondence to Professor Phil Wiffen, Pain Research Unit, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK; phil.wiffen{at}ndcn.ox.ac.uk