The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7284 p134
31 January 2004

Society summary

Privy Council approves request to end disclosure of members' addresses

The disclosure of pharmacists' full addresses in the printed Annual Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists is to end. The Privy Council has approved an amendment to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Byelaws that will allow the register to give only the postal town element of the address.

The Byelaw change brings the Society into line with other regulatory bodies, which generally publish postal towns rather than the full addresses of their members.

The amendment was requested by the Society’s Council early last year because of concerns that some pharmacists, worried about personal safety, are inhibited from submitting their homes address as their registered address. The Society wants pharmacists to register their personal residential addresses because home addresses are more likely to be kept up to date, thus allowing members to be contacted more readily and directly.