The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7349 p595
14 May 2005

Society summary

Council complete as Privy Council appoints lay members and academic pharmacist named

The new Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is now complete.

With the appointment by the Privy Council of 10 lay members and by schools of pharmacy of one academic pharmacist, all 30 members of the Council have now been named.

Joining the 17 elected pharmacists and two elected registered pharmacy technicians on the new Council (PJ, 16 April, p461) are the following people appointed by the Privy Council:

Seema Agha, of London. Ms Agha is a senior solicitor for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. In the past she has been a money adviser for the Inner London Probation Service, a support worker for Domestic Violence Matters and a lay magistrate. She has also been a community worker for Brent Women’s Aid.

Phillida Entwistle, of Kendal, Cumbria. Dr Entwhistle is currently a non-executive director of United Utilities Plc, has been a magistrate for 25 years and is a trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Previously she was a chairman of an acute hospital trust in Cumbria and a member of the Mental Health Act Commission. She has been a member of the Society’s Council since 2001 and currently chairs the Audit and Infringements Committees.

John Hanlon, of Wallaceton, Dumfriesshire. Mr Hanlon is a solicitor and commissioner for the Scottish Care Commission and sits on the finance, audit and compliance committee. He is the first independent Regulator of Community Interest Companies. He is a former chairman of the Gas and Electricity Consumer Council in Scotland and a former invigilator for the Homeless (Scotland), National Census.

Sylvia Hikins, of West Kirby, Merseyside. Mrs Hikins is a management consultant. She is a non-executive director and vice-chairman of Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust and an appointed member of the Correctional Services Accreditation Panel. She is also chairman and trustee of the Cyril Taylor Trust Fund.

Lorna Jacobs, of Maidenhead, Berkshire. Mrs Jacobs is a non-executive director of Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead Primary Care Trust. She is also lay member of the Family Health Services Appeal Authority, a justice of the peace and project co-ordinator for Lunches for the Homeless.

Raymond Jobling, of Cambridge. Mr Jobling is a university lecturer and secretary of the senior tutors’ committee for the University of Cambridge. He is also a member of the international advisory board for the University of Utrecht, chairman of the University Health Services Committee and is the national chairman for the Psoriasis Association.

Alan Kershaw, of Godalming, Surrey. Mr Kershaw is a company chief executive for the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. He is a member of the Home Office Advisory Forum on Forensic Physicians and of the steering group on Government Review of Forensic Social Science.

Bob Michell, of Exning, Suffolk. Professor Michell is currently professor of comparative medicine at the University of London and, since 2004, has been an elected patient governor at Addenbrooke’s Foundation Hospital Trust. He is a former president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the Veterinary Research Club and the Association of Veterinary Teachers and Workers. He has been a member of the Society’s Council since 2002 and chairs the Society’s Animal Medicines Committee.

Marcia Saunders, of London. Ms Saunders is the chairman of North Central London Strategic Health Authority and is a self-employed assessor and reviewer. She is also chairman of London NHS Race Equality Group and a member of the Modernising Medical Careers Working Group.

Michael Schofield, lives in Blandford Forum, Dorset. Professor Schofield is an independent assessor for the Commissioner for Public Appointments and a former chairman of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts. He has been a member of the Society’s Council since 1999, currently chairs the Remuneration Committee and previously chaired the Infringements Committee. He is on the board of Royal Pharmaceutical Society Publishing.

Also joining the Council is the following person appointed by university schools of pharmacy:

Stephen Denyer, of Mynyddbach, Gwent, Professor Denyer is head of the school of pharmacy at Cardiff University. He serves on the Wales Pharmaceutical Committee and the Welsh Committee for the Professional Development of Pharmacists and has served on the Society’s Degree Accreditation Panel for nine years as well as being a member of the Society’s Science and Education Committees. He has been elected to the place on the Council reserved for a pharmacist appointed by the universities in Great Britain awarding degrees accredited by the Society for the purposes of registration as a pharmacist.

The new Council begins to function on 25 May, the day after the Society’s annual general meeting. There will be a series of induction days for all new members and the first full meeting of the new Council will take place in early June, when the Officers of the Society will be elected.