Mr Terry Turner has decided to stand down from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Welsh Executive after more than 30 years' service on the executive and its precursors.
Mr Turner's links date back to 1969 when the Society set up a regional structure in England and Wales with 13 regions each based on a school of pharmacy. Mr Turner joined the committee of the South Wales region (Rhanbarth de Cymru) as the academic representative of the Welsh school of pharmacy. He continued to represent the school until 1975, when pharmacists in Wales decided to set up an all-Wales committee, Rhanbarth Cymru, and he became a member of that body. In the following year the Society, recognising that it would need a pharmaceutical voice in Wales if proposals for devolution became a reality, decided that the committee should become its Welsh Executive. Mr Turner was elected to the new executive in its first year and has since been re-elected every three years. He was chairman of the executive in 1980-81.