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Your Voice Counts – EuroPharm Forum Vision to Practice 2020

Consultation for a New Approach


  • Change can happen when your voice is heard!
  • We need and hope to formulate a successful future for European Pharmacy Practice!
  • We need to know your views!
  • We need to hear you!
  • We intend to listen!
Spring in Tivoli Gardens

Venue
WHO Regional Office for Europe, Scherfigsvej 8, 2100 Copenhagen

Date
26 May 2009 from 9.30-16.00
Welcome reception on 25 May in the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen at 19.00

Registration
Registration is recommended by 20 April 2009 to guarantee accommodation at the proposed hotels. For registrations after this date, we will do our best to accommodate your wishes for hotel bookings. Link to Registration Form also available in panel to the right.

Aim
To bring members, observers and ALL interested parties together for an open agenda meeting to discuss and set the future of the EuroPharm Forum.

For registration and practical information, please view links to the right.

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We hope that the Presidents of the organisations will attend along with their nominated representatives. We also hope that you will give thought to what you would like the meeting to discuss, and that you will come forward with your suggestions, preferably by 11 May.

Meanwhile, the Executive Committee has identified a number of aspects as important discussion points and, therefore, suggests that the Consultation addresses the following issues:

Structure
  • The structure of the conduct of the professional work of the EuroPharm Forum was decided upon in Riga in 2005.
    Is this still the most effective way to achieve results, or is the time ripe for a new approach?
  • Are the professional domains adopted in Riga still valid?
Players
  • A Memorandum of Understanding for Collaboration has been signed by the WHO Europe and the EuroPharm Forum focusing on concrete collaboration areas.
    Would a formalisation of the collaboration with other observer bodies increase the value and credibility of the EuroPharm Forum?
  • Members are KEY to the EuroPharm Forum as, without members, there is no Forum. According to the Statutes, only national pharmaceutical associations are eligible for membership.
    Can we secure a more extensive network by allowing individual membership or membership by regional bodies in the member countries?
  • The Secretariat is at present located at the resource and research centre Pharmakon, WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Policy and Pharmacy Practice.
    Should the EuroPharm Forum prioritise engaging in a closer relationship with Pharmakon to exploit its resource and research facilities beyond the secretarial agreement?
Frame
  • A new work method based on the wiki technology will be demonstrated during the Consultation.
    Can use of this technology be a successful method of developing and exchanging new knowledge and increasing the level of involvement of members to the benefit of all parties?
  • The Forum cannot operate without the financial support of its members.
    If the financial situation worsens, eg due to lower membership numbers or lower income, would it be right to assume that this demonstrates a lack of interest in the Forum alltogether, and, as a consequence, close shop? Or would a viable solution be to seek sponsorship to support the continued survival of the Forum?
Participants are most welcome to suggest other important aspects and submit their proposals at the time of registration or by e-mail to the Secretariat by 11 May 2009.

Tivoli Gardens
EuroPharm Forum
WHO Collaborating Centre
Milnersvej 42
DK-3400 Hillerød
Phone: +45 4820 6000