The 2025 EAHP Shortages Survey is open, the Association has announced. For the first time, the survey covers not only medicines and medical devices, but also compounding practices and critical medicines lists, providing a broader picture of the challenges faced in hospitals.
EAHP is calling on healthcare professionals working in the hospital setting and patients to share their experiences. Your insight is vital in helping to shape effective, long-term solutions to this growing problem, said the EAHP.
“Managing medicines shortages and ensuring continuity of supply can also cause the diversion of significant amounts of the time and attention of a hospital pharmacist from other tasks important in the provision of high-quality, safe and efficacious care,” said the Association. “Furthermore, the medicines shortage problem can undermine efforts to reduce costs in health systems as often, in the case of shortage, a more costly alternative must be used — or worse, a less effective alternative.”
In 2023, the EAHP conducted its sixth Shortages Survey to assess the scale of the issue. The findings indicated that, as in 2019, 95 per cent of hospital pharmacists identified medicine shortages as a serious concern. Comparatively, 86 per cent of other healthcare professionals, 84 per cent of physicians, and 68 per cent of nurses also recognised shortages as a significant issue within their hospitals.
New questions have been introduced in the 2025 survey to explore the role of compounding in managing medicine shortages and the use of national and European lists of critical medicines.
To take the survey, visit https://www. surveymonkey.com/r/JTGHFDH?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=e- mail&utm_source=EAHP25Congress.
