Basel Statement update in Brisbane — Request for input
The Hospital Pharmacy Section has started a project to update the Basel Statements.
The aim is to have a set of Basel Statements that remain relevant to hospital pharmacists in all World Health Organization regions. The scope is not to revise a great part of the statement set, but the project specifically will look at statements that might need clarification and/or slight modifications. In addition, the project is designed to identify implementation documents for the Basel Statements.
If you know of any hospital pharmacy standards published by professional organisations that are not members of FIP that might be relevant to this project, please email the name of the organisation (and preferably a link to the standards) to baselstatements@fip-hps.org. With your help, we hope to create a truly global mapping.
The project team consists of Jonathan Penm, Stephen Eckel, Régis Vaillancourt, Rebekah Moles, Cristina Sanches, Racha Dabliz, Mike Stepanovic and Rob Moss.
What are the Basel Statements?
History
Hospital pharmacists from around the world met in Basel, Switzerland, in 2008, to discuss the future of their sector. This historic two-day meeting, hosted by FIP’s Hospital Pharmacy Section, came to a consensus over 75 statements reflecting their vision of practice: the Basel Statements.
The Basel Statements cover all areas of the medicine use process in hospitals, from procurement to monitoring.
In 2014, hospital pharmacists again gathered, this time in Bangkok, Thailand, to input into future practice through updating the statements. The latest version of the Basel Statements was launched in September 2015. There are now 65 statements.
What the statements cover
The Basel Statements can be split into seven areas:
Link to Library
For the full statements document click here.
Self-Assessment
The Hospital Pharmacy Section has created a Basel Statement self-assessment survey to measure your hospital's services compared to the Basel Statements. The self-assessment tool also allows you to take the survey again over time to see the progress after improvements are made. In addition, the self-assessment tool allows you to compare your hospital's pharmacy services to other hospitals that you choose.
A recording of a Webinar with very helpful tips to complete the survey is posted here.
The Basel Statement Self-Assessment survey is available here.
Impacts
The Basel Statements have been used in hospitals around the world:
| Western Pacific Region | St Mary's Lacor Hospital, Uganda |
Translations
You can access to the Basel statements translations here.
Resources
Resources to aid and monitor implementation:
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About the revisions |
Basel Statement Revisions (2015) Webinar
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Implementation |
European Statements — The Basel Statements adapted to the European region The European Statements of Hospital Pharmacy. Eur J Hosp Pharm 2014;21:256-8.) Further information on how the European Statements were developed can be found here
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Monitoring implementation |
Use of the 2008 Basel consensus statements to assess, realign, and monitor pharmacy practice at a tertiary care hospital in northern Uganda: illustrative case study. (Poh J, Vaillancourt R, Lamarre D and Oyella J. Can J Hosp Pharm 2013;66:318-27.)
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Monitoring influences on prescribing |
1. Survey on Formularies Systems and Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committees Comparative results for the Western Pacific region: Formulary systems and pharmacy and therapeutics committees in the Western Pacific Region: exploring two Basel Statements. Penm J, Chaar B, Dechun J, Moles R. Am J Health-Syst Pharm 2013;70:967-79. 2. Survey on Clinical Pharmacy Services Comparative results for the Western Pacific region: Clinical pharmacy services that influence prescribing in the Western Pacific Region based on the FIP Basel Statements. Penm J, Chaar B, Moles R. Int J Clin Pharm 2015;37(3):485-496.
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Published articles
Permissions
The FIP Hospital Pharmacy Section encourages the republication of the Executive Summary of the 2008 Global Conference on the Future of Hospital Pharmacy in other journals, and the translation of the Basel Statements and other components of the conference proceedings into other languages. For our policy on reprinting, republishing and translating the statements, click here.
Contact
If you have any questions about the Basel Statements, contact Dr Rebekah Moles, HPS secretary: hps@fip.org