Decisions on corporate governance
Members of the Society's Council are in future to be encouraged not to abstain from voting at Council meetings.
On the recommendation of the corporate governance steering group, the
April Council
meeting agreed that the importance of voting would be addressed
through future induction sessions and training sessions for Council members.
The Council also accepted by 16 votes to seven a recommendation that
reasons for abstention should not be recorded. The steering group believed
that such a requirement would be inequitable treatment of those abstaining,
since those who did vote were not required to give reasons.
The Council also agreed that all pharmacist members of Council should
be prepared to stand in for other Council members who were unable to
attend meetings of Society committees they served on. A Council member
unable to attend a committee meeting would contact the Secretary and
Registrar’s office, which would find a substitute. The decision
was made because some group committees had experienced the problem of
meetings at which two Council members were scheduled to attend but neither
turned up.
The Council further agreed that the words “to produce pharmacists” should
be deleted from the core activities listed in the constitution of the
Academic Pharmacy Group. The group’s role was to represent pharmacy
academics and not to produce pharmacists, which was the job of the schools
of pharmacy.
Among other recommendations accepted by the Council were that the Council
Governance Handbook should include a role description for the immediate
past president, that a role description should also be developed for
the attendance of a lay member of Council at the Officers Group.
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