The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7208 p133-134
27 July 2002

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The Council

Corporate governance gone mad

From Mr M. Crane, MRPharmS

To give members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council an option to sign the voluntary code of conduct and then to penalise Dr Gordon Appelbe and Sultan Dajani for choosing not to sign, by refusing them membership or chairmanship of certain committees, is discriminatory (PJ, 29 June, p929).

To state, as the President did, that "only two had not signed and the rest of the Council was not affected" does not lessen the fact that this is discrimination. Dr Appelbe, a former head of the Society's law department, a former secretary of the Statutory Committee, joint author of a standard work on pharmacy law and ethics and a former treasurer of the Society, now appears to be regarded by the Council as untrustworthy.

The voluntary code of conduct appears to resemble a Tudor loyalty oath to which one must subscribe or be punished. Is this corporate governance gone mad, or are we seeing the creation of a Committee of Unpharmaceutical Activities?

Malcolm Crane
Rye, East Sussex

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