From the President:
Your views are needed
The Society's President, Dr Gill Hawksworth, calls on all members to contribute to the discussion on how the future Society should be structured
This week, the Society publishes an important discussion paper aimed
at generating wider debate and encouraging thoughts and ideas on the
framework below the governing Council that will carry out much of the
detailed work in the future.
This framework will be essential to ensuring that the future Society
will be competent and credible as an integrated professional and regulatory
body. The structures below the Council will be key to ensuring that our
profession, and those we seek to influence, see the Society as an organisation
worth listening to, and are confident of our ability to discharge our
remit effectively and efficiently. This will include ensuring that we
properly reflect diversity within pharmacy, both in terms of devolution
and the different types of professional practice.
Three possible models are outlined in the paper, which highlights some
of the issues we will need to consider. None of these is fully developed.
None has been assessed or tested to find out whether it could work effectively,
and none has yet been costed to check whether it would be affordable.
They are illustrated to help share thinking to date, to prompt comment
and to help us, with your input, to develop further ideas on these important
points over the next few months.
I would encourage you to contribute to this important piece of work and
look forward to hearing your views.
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