Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy

SEFH consensus statements, practice recommendations, and guidelines (Sociedad Espanola de Farmacia Hospitalaria). As any society, the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy (SEFH) periodically publishes prac-... 

The Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy (SSHP) is the only national association of its kind to group together hospital pharmacists in Spain. The society is very well established within the profession due to its long tradition of protecting the interests of the sector. It has not always been easy to maintain the importance and representative of the society. However, due to the efforts of its presidents and the pharmacists themselves, it is now one of the most relevant hospital pharmacy societies in Spain and in Europe. 

Pharmacists have always worked with doctors and nurses, in and outside hospitals, but it was not until 1955 that a National Association of Pharmacists from Civil Hospitals was created in Spain. In 1967, the Spanish Public Health Service created its own hospital pharmacy services in state hospitals. In 1977, hospital pharmacy services were regulated as was the training of hospital pharmacists. In 1988 the name of the association changed to the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacists, as it is known today. 

Clinical pharmacy is founded on three basic activities drug selection, drug information, and rational distribution (unit-dose). If these activities are not present, other clinical activities cannot be developed. Drug information, the unit-dose delivery system, parenteral and enteral nutrition programs, therapeutic drug monitoring, participation in clinical trials, and other activities developed by Spanish hospital pharmacists are modest examples of what is known as clinical pharmacy.Clinical pharmacy is slowly changing society s idea of hospital pharmacy in Spain. 

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