A new Council for a new era
Of 14 current members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council who sought election to the 17 places for pharmacists on the new Council, only nine have been successful.
The Society’s Vice-President, Hemant Patel, topped the poll for
the 14 unreserved seats and will serve on the new Council for three years,
as will Martin Astbury and Graham Phillips. Gerald Alexander, John Jolley
(Treasurer), Sultan Dajani and Davan Eustace have been elected to serve
for two years, and Shiv Bagga and Douglas Simpson will serve for one
year.
These nine are joined by five new members: Stephen Wells and John Gentle
will serve for two years and Andrew McCoig, Dorothy Drury and Bharat
Nathwani will each serve
for one year only.
In the elections to the national seats, the successful candidates were
Jonathan Buisson (England, Isle of Man and Channel Islands), David Thomson
(Scotland) and Colin Ranshaw (Wales). Each will serve for three years.
Thirteen of the 17 successful candidates are declared supporters of the
Save Our Society campaign.
The unsuccessful candidates in the election include sitting Council members
Gill Hawksworth, Alison Ewing, Linda Stone, Patricia Hoare and Digby
Emson. Mrs Stone and Dr Hawksworth are both past presidents. Mrs Stone
has been a Council member for a total of 24 years and Dr Hawksworth for
12 years. Mrs Hoare has nine years’ Council service and Miss Ewing
and Mr Emson have both served for six years.
The other unsuccessful pharmacists were Mohammad Ahmed, Gordon Geddes,
Ian Mullen, Jaggy Khela, Tony Moffat, Robert Gartside, Vanessa Taylor
and Valerie Turner.
Out of the 45,427 voting papers issued in the election to the unreserved
seats for pharmacists, 9,889 were returned (690 fewer than in last year’s
election of seven pharmacists) and 71 were disallowed as invalid. The
percentage of voting papers returned was 21.8, compared with 22.8 in
2004 and 22.4 in 2003.
For the national seats the percentages of voting papers returned was
as follows: England, Isle of Man and Channel Islands, 18.4; Scotland,
21.2; Wales, 27.7.
In the election of two registered pharmacy technicians, the successful
candidates were Lesley Morgan, who will serve on the Council for three
years, and Corinne Hunt, who serves for two years. The number of voting
papers issued was 396, of which 202 (51.0 per cent) were returned.
Official
notice, p470
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