The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7241 p417
22 March 2003

Society summary

Society appoints a records manager

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has appointed Susan Em as records manager in its Information Centre. Ms Em joins the Society from the Royal College of Physicians, where she was archivist and records manager.

Ms Em will be responsible for setting up processes and procedures to ensure the Society's compliance with relevant legislation, notably data protection and freedom of information (FOI). She will also develop a Society-wide records management policy and implement a programme to support this.

Roy Allcorn, the Society's head of information, said: "There is an increasing obligation on us to be compliant on a wide range of records management issues and so we need to have new policies and procedures in place. Our information management processes need to be transparent, effective and applied robustly across the whole organisation.

"One key objective of this project is to set up various audit processes to look at existing procedures, especially regarding personal data, to develop retention/disposal schedules for records, to check incoming data request processes, and to start to prepare the information access schemes required under FOI."