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The 17th European Association of Hospital Pharmacist (EAHP) Congress that was held in Milan in March this year was in many respects an exciting event. It was a huge social event with some 3700 attendants and the content reached a new high in number of sessions and quality. However, if you were among the many colleagues who stayed at home to look after our patients, you do not have to miss out because most sessions will be available soon in video format from the EAHP website (http://www.eahp.eu).
We bring the congress to you
In the European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (EJHP) we try to cover the Congress as extensively as possible. In this issue, Professor Umberto Veronesi shares with us 50 years of experience in oncology care, and how this has shaped oncology pharmaceutical care today. I found it impressive to see such an icon of modern medicine placing the patient at the centre of treatment rather than either the doctor's priorities, as we often see, or the drug treatment, which is usually the pharmacist's focus. With his concluding list of roles for the hospital pharmacist, he connected flawlessly with the overall theme of the Congress: Special patient groups.
The idea of patients taking more responsibility for their own treatment is the subject of the report from Marcolongo and Ané on ‘Therapeutic patient education’. Proper education of patients will improve self-management, …
Correspondence to Dr Arnold G Vulto, Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Erasmus University Medical Center, Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; editor.ejhp{at}bmjgroup.com