The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7321 p579
16 October 2004

Society summary

October Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 5 and 6 October. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following five pages. 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, Hassan Argomandkhah, Martin Astbury, Shiv Bagga, Sultan Dajani, Phillida Entwistle, Davan Eustace, Alison Ewing, Nicola Gray, Gill Hawksworth, Maurice Hickey, Patricia Hoare, Clive Jackson, Bob Michell, Graham Phillips, Michael Schofield, Douglas Simpson, Linda Stone and the Secretary and Registrar (Ann Lewis). Also present were the vice-chairman of the Society’s Scottish Executive (Rose Marie Parr) and the chairman of the Welsh Executive (Mair Davies).

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from Digby Emson, Christine Glover and Noel Wicks.

Guests Present by invitation were Dick Hazlehurst (representative of the Society’s Bradford branch), Barry Clarke (treasurer of the Society’s Sherwood region) and James Wood (president, British Pharmaceutical Students Association).