The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7294 p453
10 April 2004

Society summary

April Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 30 and 31 March. News items about various matters raised at the meeting appear via this summary link. These reports will be supplemented in due course by an extended transcript of the meeting’s open sessions published on the Society’s website.

Attendance Those present at the meeting were the President (Dr Gill Hawksworth), the Vice-President (Alison Ewing), the Treasurer (Linda Stone), Gerald Alexander, Martin Astbury, Andrew Burr, Sultan Dajani, Marshall Davies, Wally Dove, Digby Emson, Dr Phillida Entwistle, Christine Glover, Dr Nicola Gray, Sally Greensmith, Patricia Hoare, Helen Howe, Clive Jackson, Professor Bob Michell, Hemant Patel, Professor Michael Schofield, Douglas Simpson, Ashwin Tanna, Noel Wicks, Nicholas Wood and the Secretary and Registrar (Ann Lewis). Also present were the chairman of the Society’s Scottish Executive (David Thomson) and the chairman of the Welsh Executive (Andrea Robinson).

Guests Present by invitation were Malcolm Goldie (regional communications officer for the Society’s Border region), Philip Rogers (treasurer of the Society’s Bath branch), David Smith (member of the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals) and Brian Wells (representative of the Society’s Hull branch