Webinars

We focus on education, communication and improving the practice of pharmacy in hospitals around the world and this includes the provision of webinars. Recent titles include:

• Hospital pharmacy practice & achievements in EMRO. What next?
• Role of the pharmacist in the management of heart failure.
• The Basel Statements
• Deprescribing in the elderly
• Medication Shortages in Latin America: Causes, Consequences, and Collaborative Solutions (Spanish-language webinar)
• Automation in Hospital Pharmacy – Implementation and Insights

Previous webinars are accessible to our members in the FIP Library. Use them to enhance your skills, confidence and ability to serve patients in health-systems around the world. You can also visit the FIP YouTube channel for more video content.

At the FIP congress

During the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, we organise a week-long programme, aligned with the overall congress topic and tailored for hospital pharmacists, including practitioners, researchers and leaders.

The FIP congress is also an important showcase for hospital pharmacists and we invite you to present your work, either as a short oral communication or a poster.

Our section’s annual steering committee meeting is also held during the congress. Participating in the congress gives you opportunities to benchmark, learn from colleagues from all over the world and make new friends. In addition to continuing education, there’s a lot of fun to be had at the HPS dinner, showcase and welcome reception.

Oral and Poster Presentation Awards

Short oral presentations and poster exhibitions based on received abstracts are a long-standing HPS tradition held during each FIP annual congress. All presentations will be carefully reviewed during the FIP congress and the top presentations will be selected to receive the HPS Oral and Poster Presentation Awards. The overall purpose of this award is to encourage hospital pharmacy research and development and the sharing of experiences and results with other pharmacists through high-quality presentations.

We are excited to announce the following winners and finalists of the HPS Oral and Poster Presentation Awards from the 2025 FIP World Congress:

Winner of the Hospital Pharmacy Section Best Oral Presentation Award 2025

• Dr Regis Vaillancourt, Canada, Presentation Title: Utilizing artificial intelligence to assess aseptic technique during sterile compounding within a primary engineering control

Tied runner-up of the Hospital Pharmacy Section Best Oral Presentation Award 2025

• Prof Michael Barras, Australia, Presentation Title: Reducing hospital readmissions: The evaluation of a pharmacy led transition of care service
• Dr Michael Stepanovic, United States of America, Presentation Title: Comparison of the FIP Basel Statements on the future of hospital pharmacy practice and global pharmacy school accreditation standards

Joint winners of the Hospital Pharmacy Section Best Poster Presentation Award 2025

• Dr Michael Stepanovic, United States of America, Presentation title: Evaluating the Impact of a Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Short Course Targeting Multidisciplinary Pharmacy Leaders in Ethiopia
• Ms Audrey Sika Geraldo, Ghana, Presentation title: The evolving role of pharmacists in patient care: a retrospective review at a quaternary teaching hospital in Ghana

Special Prize Winner – Best AMS Poster from Low- to Middle-income Country from the Hospital Pharmacy Section for access to the Sanford Guide 2025

• Ms Nana Ama Buadiba Osei, Ghana, Presentation Title: Local antibiogram development for enhanced diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections: A case study from a quaternary hospital in Ghana

Special Prize Tied Runner-Up – Best AMS Poster from Low- to Middle-income Country from the Hospital Pharmacy Section for access to the Sanford Guide 2025

• Ms Helena Owusu, Ghana, Presentation Title: Development and evaluation of a novel antibiotic point prevalence survey method in primary healthcare (APC-PPS); Results from the Korle bu Polyclinic
• Dr Josephine Mensah, Ghana, Presentation Title: Evaluation of meropenem utilization at a quaternary care hospital in Ghana: A retrospective review

Hospital Pharmacy Section outputs

Newsletters

To keep our members updated with the latest pharmacy practice discussions, research and HPS activities, we send out electronic newsletters every two months. We also welcome contributions to the HPS newsletter. Email: asst.secretary@fip-hps.org  

Basel Statements

The Basel Statements are a set of 65 statements reflecting the vision for hospital pharmacy practice and covering all areas of the medicine use process in hospitals, from procurement to monitoring. The Hospital Pharmacy Section has started a project to update and develop an implementation plan for the Basel Statements. The project team consists of Dr Jonathan Penm, Dr Stephen Eckel, Dr Régis Vaillancourt, Prof. Rebekah Moles, Dr Racha Dabliz, Dr Michael Stepanovic and Mr Robert Moss.

For more information on the Basel Statements, click here.

Preoperative Opioid Tapering Package

In 2024, a resource package was developed to inform a pharmacist-partnered opioid tapering service before elective surgery. This resource package summarises the key steps to tapering opioid analgesics before surgery. Additional resources describing principles of pain management, opioid tapering, and motivational interviewing are described.

The full resource is available here.

Research Grants

Our 2025 FIP Hospital Pharmacy Section/FIP Foundation Research Grant Awardees are:

	Mr Kingston Wai Chiu Mak Yeung is a PhD candidate from Australia, researching ways to improve transitions of care and medication safety. The HPS Research Grant will help support the “Evaluation of a Pharmacy Technician-Enhanced Transition of Care (PETOC) model to facilitate post-discharge Home Medicines Reviews for high-risk patients.
	Mrs Katelyn Jauregui is a PhD candidate and a clinical pharmacist from Australia. The HPS Research Grant will support her research exploring clinicians’ rationales for prescribing extended-release rather than immediate-release opioids for acute post- operative pain.

For more information, please go to FIP Hospital Pharmacy Section (HPS) Grants – FIP Foundation. 

Annual report

The HPS 2025 annual report is available here. 
The HPS annual reports for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are also available.