The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7307 p67
10 July 2004

Society summary

Special Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 30 June, after the conclusion of two strategy days at which it discussed items relating to the Society's reform programme that had been brought forward from the Council meeting held on 8 and 9 June (PJ, 19 June, p775). News items about the matters raised at the meeting appear on this and the following two pages and will shortly be supplemented by an extended transcript of the meeting’s open session published on the “About the Society” pages of the Society’s website.

Attendance Those present at the meeting were the President (Nicholas Wood), the Vice-President (Hemant Patel), the Treasurer (John Jolley), Gerald Alexander, Hassan Argomandkhah, Shiv Bagga, Sultan Dajani, Digby Emson, Phillida Entwistle, Davan Eustace, Alison Ewing, Christine Glover, Nicola Gray, Gill Hawksworth, Maurice Hickey, Patricia Hoare, Clive Jackson, Graham Phillips, Michael Schofield, Douglas Simpson, Linda Stone, Noel Wicks and the Secretary and Registrar (Ann Lewis). Also present were the chairman of the Society’s Scottish Executive (Angela Timoney) and the chairman of the Welsh Executive (Andrea Robinson).

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from Martin Astbury and Bob Michell.