The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7298 p560
8 May 2004

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New chairman elected for NPA

Ashok Soni, a community pharmacist from south London, has been elected chairman of the National Pharmaceutical Association for 2004–05. He was elected by members of the NPA board of management, who have also just been elected. The NPA holds elections every three years and this election sees 11 new faces brought to the 20-man and one-woman board.

Mr Soni said: “We have been preparing for huge changes for some time, but they are starting to happen now. One of the first key issues during my term will be the agreement and implementation of the new [community pharmacy] contract.” Mr Soni is also one of the first pharmacists in England to qualify as a supplementary prescriber.

In addition to a new chairman, the NPA has a new vice-chairman, Rajesh Patel, from Manchester. Wally Dove has been re-elected treasurer.

Other members of the NPA board for 2004–07 are Gerald Alexander, Martin Bennett, Peter Cattee, Jeremy Clitherow, Robert Curd, Ian Facer, Bob Gould, Dennis Houlihan, Dilip Joshi, Tricia Kennerly, Andy Murdoch, Rakesh Panesar, Hemant Patel, Umesh Patel, Graham Phillips, Matthew Price, James Semple and Sean Woodward.