The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7312 p233
14 August 2004

Society summary

August Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 3 and 4 August. News about various matters raised at the meeting appear here. These reports will be supplemented in due course by a verbatim transcript of the meeting’s open sessions published on the Society’s website along with relevant agendas, supporting papers and minutes.

Attendance Those present at the meeting were the President (Nicholas Wood), the Vice-President (Hemant Patel), the Treasurer (John Jolley), Gerald Alexander, Martin Astbury, Shiv Bagga, Sultan Dajani, Phillida Entwistle, Davan Eustace, Alison Ewing, Christine Glover, Nicola Gray, Gill Hawksworth, Maurice Hickey, Patricia Hoare, Clive Jackson, Bob Michell, Graham Phillips, 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 (Mair Davies).

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from Hassan Argomandkhah, Digby Emson and Michael Schofield.

Guests Present by invitation were the following representatives of the Society’s branches and regions: Mark Collins (chairman, North East Lancashire branch), Pamela Turnbull (Nottingham branch), Linda Orton (West Cumberland branch), Gavin Miller (West Metropolitan branch) and Mohammad Zafar Khan (Chiltern region).