About us

The Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE) was established in 1994 by a number of European pharmaceutical care researchers. It became an official association (under Dutch law) in 2004. According to the bylaws, the aim of PCNE is to help to develop pharmacy along the lines of pharmaceutical care in the involved European countries through:
* stimulating pharmaceutical care and pharmacy related outcome research in Europe;
* stimulating research and implementation projects carried out in more countries simultaneously;
* organising a bi-annual working conference around pharmaceutical care and pharmacy practice research;
* all other possible activities that serve the aim of the association.

Current board members of the PCNE are Mary Tully (chairman, United Kingdom), Maria Cordina (Secretary, Malta), Filipa Alves da Costa (Portugal), Mara Guerreira (Portugal), Birthe Sondergaard (Denmark) and Tommy Westerlund (Sweden).

Presenting PCNE

A presentation (pdf file, 2009) about pharmaceutical care and the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe is available.

Members

Following are the current members of PCNE:

Individual

Filipa Alves da Costa (Portugal)
Cecilia Bernsten (Sweden)
Paul Bissell (United Kingdom)
Ingeborg Bjorkman (Sweden)
Lyda Blom (the Netherlands)
Olivier Bugnon (Switzerland)
Carme Capdevila (Spain)
Margarida Caramona (Portugal)
Maria Cordina (Malta)
Peter de Smet (The Netherlands)
Tobias Dreischulte (Germany/United Kingdom)
Iñigo Gorostiza (Spain)
Mara Guerreiro (Portugal)
Kurt Hersberger (Switzerland)
Marleen Haems (Belgium)
Martin Henman (Ireland)
Carmel Hughes (United Kingdom)
Mitja Kos (Slovenia)
James McElnay (United Kingdom)
Peter Noyce (United Kingdom)
Raymond Okechkwu (Nigeria Obs)
Ema Paulino (Portugal)
Marina Petric (Serbia)
Sirpa Peura, Finlnd
Antal Samu (Hungary)
Marion Schaefer (Germany)
Martin Schulz (Germany)
Sonia Silva (Portugal)
Helge Stromme (Norway)
Dick Tromp (the Netherlands)
Mary Tully (United Kingdom)
Foppe van Mil (The Netherlands)
Frank Verheijen (Germany)
Tommy Westerlund (Sweden)
Almut Winterstein (USA Obs)

 Institutional

Belgium: Algemene Pharmeuceutische Bond
Belgium: Univ. of Leuven. Ond.centr. Farm.Zorg & Farmaco-economie
Denmark: Pharmakon
Denmark: Univ. of Copenhagen, Section for Social Pharmacy
Germany: ABDA-ZAPP
Germany: Martin Luther Universität, Dept. Clinical Pharmacy
Iceland: A-BAS
Malta: Malta School of Pharmacy
Portugal: ANF-DPCF
Portugal: Univ. of Lisboa. Fac. Farmacia, Dept. Soc Farm.
Serbia: Univ. of Belgrade, Dept. of Social Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical history
Spain: Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Farmacéuticos
Spain: Pharmaceutical Care Foundation
Spain: Univ. of Barcelona. Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy
Spain: Univ. of Granada. Research Group Pharm Care
United Kingdom: Univ. of Nottingham, Centre for Pharmacy, Health & Society
United Kingdom: University of Leeds, Dept. of pharmacy

How to become a member

The membership of PCNE is open to any person or institute that does pharmaceutical care research and/or implementation and/or implementation research in Europe. There is no special fee, but members are requested to sign a letter of Intent. This letter basically is a document that stresses the fair relationships between all members, respect for the intellectual ownership of projects, methods and studies.
All members (or representatives of Institutional members) at some point during their membership, are expected to be part of the board for a certain period of time (usually 6 years), of which 2 years as chairperson or secretary. To be able to become a member of the PCNE Association, an institution must present their pharmaceutical care related work in General Assembly of PCNE. After the presentation, the members present decide upon membership.

Please note

This wesbite is for people who are interested in the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe. Please give the webaddress to as many interested parties as you wish.

If you want to go to the PCNE forum, click here.

If you want to become a member of the PCNE, please contact the secretariat per email or write to: PCNE Secretariat, c/o Margrietlaan , 9471 CT Zuidlaren, the Netherlands.