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Hughes On 26 December 2004, Gordon
Mitchell Hughes, MRPharmS, of Tregorran, Grange Close, Leatherhead, Surrey
KT22 7JX. Mr Hughes registered in 1955 (see Tribute).
Jones On 2 February, Peter Edward Jones, MRPharmS, of Cleeve Hill Nursing Home,
Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL52 3PW. Mr Jones registered in 1956.
A native of Gloucestershire, Mr Jones qualified first as an accountant before
training as a pharmacist in Bristol. After a short period in community pharmacy
in Bristol and Cheltenham, Mr Jones joined Glaxo Laboratories in 1957 as Glaxo’s
export executive for Burma and the Far East. This led in 1960 to a move to Ceylon
where he was general manager, and subsequent moves to Bombay and finally Pakistan
where he was based from 1968 to 1971. In 1971 Mr Jones and his wife moved to
the Isle of Wight and ran Ventnor Pharmacy until their retirement in 1990. Mr
Jones was chairman of the local branch of the Pharmaceutical Society.
Memorial service A memorial service for Peter Jones will be held at St Lawrence
Church, Undercliffe Drive, St Lawrence, Isle of Wight on 1 April at 2pm.
Moreira Nunes Da Silva Santos On 2 October 2004, Susana Cristina Moreira Nunes Da Silva Santos, MRPharmS, 9 Merchants Warehouse Robinson Row, Hull, North Humberside
HU1 2QX. Miss Moreira Nunes Da Silva Santos registered in 2003.
Noblet On 30 January, Joan Linda Noblet, née Millward, MRPharmS, of The
Corner House, 15 Powell Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex IG9 5RD. Mrs Noblet registered
in 1968.
Parks On 26 December 2004, Eric William Russel Parks, of 35 Harbour Road, Southbourne,
Bournemouth BH6 4DE. Mr Parks registered in 1942 and retired from the register
in 1999.
Weaver On 20 January, Geoffrey James Weaver, MRPharmS, of 53 Church Street, Bathford,
Bath BA1 7RR. Mr Weaver registered in 1963.
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Tribute
Dawson In tribute to David
Stewart Dawson (PJ, 19 February, p219), ALISON REES,
née Stirrat, writes:
I first met David 26 years ago when my friend Sheila
Shaw brought him for my approval before they took the plunge into matrimony.
Shortly after they married they left Dundee to take up posts with Boots in
Eastbourne where they spent five years. They returned to Scotland in
1986 with their two
children Kirsty and Andrew to run their own pharmacy in Jedburgh. Alisdair
came along in 1991 to complete the family.
They quickly became part of the local community and built up a thriving business.
David was much sought after for his advice on photography, cars, mountain-biking,
cycling, motorbikes and occasionally pharmacy! His sense of humour and mischief
making were legendary, pharmacy meetings in the Borders will never be the same
again.
David died suddenly three weeks after being diagnosed with a rare sarcoma.
He will be sadly missed by all of his friends and the community in Jedburgh.
Sheila
now intends to carry on the business and progress with the many plans that
David and she had. Our sympathy goes to Sheila and their children.
DAVID DALGLISH, head of pharmacy, NHS Borders, writes:
Pharmacy and patient
care in the Borders is much the poorer for the sudden death, after a short
illness,
on the 2 February, of David (Dave) Dawson. Certainly our postgraduate training
evenings will never be the same. Dave was a very human man with a tremendous
sense if humour, hospitable but also very much a family man. He treated everyone
equally whether fellow health professional, patient or customer and most
of all truly cared for his fellow man and woman. It was typical of the
man that
when
I spent some time with him, not long after his final diagnosis, that he could
still share a joke, but that his first concern was for Sheila and his family.
Dave and Sheila came to Jedburgh some 21 years ago, following in the footsteps
of Tommy Lean, who was also well known in Borders family circles. As pharmaceutical
and marriage partners they not only provided a high level of care to the
community, but also found time to bring up a family. Professionally Dave,
together with
Sheila was very much at the cutting edge of pharmaceutical care, both undertaking
the clinical pharmacy training course facilitated by Borders Health Board.
As a result Dave was one of the first pharmacists to work with his local
practice, as a sessional clinical pharmacist, and continued to do so right
up until his
untimely end.
He was what we would call in Scotland “a lad of pairts”. A dedicated
family man, he enjoyed family holidays in first France and then in Spain. He
was fascinated by all things mechanical and rallied both cars and motor bikes,
including racing production cars with his oldest son Andrew. Dave was extremely
IT literate and trialed a number of new pharmacy programmes, which recently included
a new programme designed to deal with the new pharmacy contract.
He had a particular love of music, especially organ music and was a great
Bach fan.
Throughout the years he played a full part not only in the life of pharmacy
in the Borders but also in the community of Jedburgh. A packed church on
the day
of his funeral was witness to the love and respect which the community held
him in.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Sheila, Kirsty, Andrew and Alastair at
this sad time, it was a privilege and pleasure to know him and all our lives
are
the poorer for his premature death.
Gleeson In a tribute to the late Peter
Alfred Patrick Gleeson (PJ, 29
January, p131), COLIN THOMAS writes:
Peter Gleeson, who was a member
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society up to his death in January this year,
qualified in 1950 from Leicester School of Pharmacy. He spent his early
career as a manager of the veterinary department of Ciba Laboratories,
now Novartis.
In 1966, he and his family moved to Worthing from Horsham and took over
a pharmacy trading as G. H. Trott Ltd, which he developed with a branch
at Storrington.
He was the managing director there until his retirement.
During his time in Worthing he was active in the local branch of the Society
and held office as chairman. He also became the South Eastern representative
on the board of the National Pharmaceutical Association and held the post of
deputy chairman. He was one of the founder members of the West Sussex Local
Pharmaceutical Committee.
Despite all this, he found time for his wife and family of four children and
was a member of
the Rotarians. He was also a member of the Angmering Choral Society and lately
a member of Angmering’s Twinning Committee.
He was well respected by many in the profession and earned their gratitude
by the help and advice he gave willingly.
He will be sadly missed by his wife and family, which now includes 12 grandchildren.
Hughes In a tribute to the late Gordon
Mitchell Hughes,
JENNY JONES writes:
Sandy Hughes, witty, kind and self-effacing, was
one of the key pharmacists to take University College Hospital pharmacy
through its metamorphosis from the post-war years to the present day.
Many pharmacists throughout the UK and the Commonwealth, will remember
him for the generosity with which he communicated his high standards
to successive generations of students and young pharmacists.
For most of his 40 years at UCH pharmacy Sandy was in charge of the manufacturing
department. In the 1950s he oversaw machinery used to manufacture large batches
of ointments, bulk quantities of BP mixtures, and a wide range of tablets (UCH’s
pale blue compound codeine tablets were particularly admired). Later he was
to monitor products to support research projects, such as high strength vitamin
D capsules or amino acid diets for metabolic disorders.
As medical science advanced he still gave students the opportunity to manufacture
traditional products such as tincture of orange or syrup of figs. Perhaps it
was a relief when one of their regular tasks of preparing brilliant green paste
gave way to the manufacture and tubing of the new-fangled corticosteroid ointments!
Among other advances, Sandy organised the conversion of the UCH formulae to
metric. He was also at the forefront of the packaging revolution, introducing
robust packs and rigorous systems for stock control, together with many of
the safety checks that pharmacists now take for granted. He also helped with
the introduction of pharmaceutical analysis and quality control — the
modern era had arrived. As older products gained museum status and new developments
became standard, Sandy remained ahead of the field, at the same time maintaining
continuity within his department.
Sandy was always courteous and helpful to the medical and nursing staff and
always supportive to his senior colleagues. All who worked with him will remember
him with deep affection and great respect. Alas, he has not lived to see the
new UCH pharmacy make its debut, but the spirit of his earlier reforms will
be enshrined within its systems.
Webber In tribute to the late David
Leigh Webber (PJ, 5 February, p161),
JOHN FARRELL, director of pharmacy services, Royal Free Hospital, writes:
David Webber was born on 15 March 1952 and was educated at Harrow County
School for Boys from 1963–1970. He completed his pharmacy degree
at the School of Pharmacy, London, in 1973 and obtained a BPharm Hons
(2.ii). Following his preregistration year with Boots The Chemists, he
stayed with Boots for the next 10 years working his way up from relief
manager, to pharmacy manager, and finally branch manager. In September
1985 David left Boots to take up various locum positions in both community
and hospital. In 1989, at the age of 37, David decided on a career change
and became a grade B pharmacist at St Thomas’ Hospital. David did
not let his mature entry into hospital pharmacy, and the fact that he
participated in a rotation system of work with a pool of staff nearly
15 years his junior, affect his focus and commitment to his new employers,
fellow colleagues, and the patients he served. It was typical of David
to want to start at the beginning to learn the job properly and work
his way up.
The year 1995 saw the commencement of another chapter in David’s career
when he was appointed to the post of head of radiopharmacy services at King’s
College Hospital. David applied himself to this role with great enthusiasm,
dedication and focus. His knowledge base expanded rapidly and David was a much
sought after lecturer in the field of radiopharmaceuticals for both MSc and
undergraduate students. In addition to outside teaching engagements David provided
training to preregistration trainees and junior pharmacists in basic theory
and practice of radiopharmacy. During such training sessions David gained a
reputation for his patience, wide knowledge of pharmacy, his dry sense of humour
and dead pan expression while telling jokes.
As well as his demanding work at King’s, David became heavily involved
in the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists in London and was particularly vocal
about the need to improve radiopharmacy training. He was always looking for
ways to promote this particular area of work to junior colleagues. The serious
lack of radiopharmacists in the London area, especially in present times, is
something of a legacy of David’s concerns.
David’s initial association with the Royal Free came when he took up
a locum pharmacist role within the dispensary. Typical of David, he approached
the work with dedication and commitment within these different surroundings.
Both management and junior staff were delighted when David applied for, and
was successful in moving into a dispensary management role where he was based
in the busy inpatient and outpatient dispensaries. Despite the often complex,
and varied workload David always remained the epitome of calmness and dedication
which was a wonderful example to all his colleagues. In particular junior staff
always enjoyed working with David, perhaps because of his ability to listen
and in his own unique way to offer support or advice.
David was great company outside work. He was always the best person to be with
in a pub quiz where an encyclopedic knowledge of music spanning from the post-war
years to the Britpop bands of the 1990s and his even more extensive sports
knowledge always astounded us. David would win every football quiz held within
the pharmacy, easily beating off the younger competition!
However, cricket was his great sporting love. Whenever he could not attend
a test match, he would be found at lunchtime in the tea-room listening to the
match commentary on his personal radio.
As the sad news of David’s sudden death has spread we have been overwhelmed
with condolences from medical, nursing and pharmacy staff throughout the NHS,
which bears testament to the David’s character, dedication and work.
David Webber was an outstanding ambassador for pharmacy and an exemplary employee
with whom I am proud to have worked. David was a good and kind man, he will
be greatly missed. In his career David touched many people and we are all better
for having known him.
On behalf of all the pharmacy staff at the Royal Free Hospital and David’s
colleagues within the NHS, I would offer our condolences to David’s family
at this sad time.
TONY WEST, clinical director, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS
Trust, writes:
I first met David back in 1989 when he was looking to move
from community pharmacy in to hospital practice. At the age of 37 he
had decided on a change in direction
and, typical for David, he had made his mind up that he needed to start “at
the bottom”. As a consequence, when he joined the staff of St Thomas’ Hospital,
it was as a basic grade pharmacist and I learnt quickly that changing David’s
mind on anything, once he had settled on an option, was not easy.
David worked at St Thomas’ until 1995 and left us to move to King’s
College Hospital as head of the radiopharmacy service. We remained friends
and colleagues until his unexpected and premature death.
For many years David was also a key figure in the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacy
in London, acting as branch secretary, reflecting his commitment to his chosen
profession.
This, however, is only one side of David. The reason so many will remember
and miss him is that he was always there to listen, he had a good sense of
humour so was good company inside and outside work, he supported and encouraged
staff and he was a mine of useful and useless information!
Hidden beneath the surface, but not too deep, was a cricket fanatic — and
by this I mean someone willing to travel the world to see England lose test
matches. David was also very knowledgeable on many other sports. As a child
of the 1960s and ’70s he was a real authority on contemporary music and
retained an infectious enthusiasm for this music throughout his life.
The thoughts of the pharmacy and nuclear medicine staff at Guy’s and
St Thomas’, together with his many colleagues in the Guild, go to his
family and the many other friends and colleagues who have lost what was a truly
nice man. David did tread lightly on this earth, but left a mark on those he
met.
Memorial service A memorial service for David Webber will be held on Wednesday
6 April at 6.30pm in the Chapel, Lower Ground Floor, Royal Free Hospital,
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