The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7362 p199
13 August 2005

Society summary

August Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 2 and 3 August 2005. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following three pages. These report 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 (Hemant Patel), the Vice-President (Gerald Alexander), the Treasurer (John Jolley), Seema Agha, Martin Astbury, Shiv Bagga, Jonathan Buisson, Sultan Dajani, Stephen Denyer, Dorothy Drury, Phillida Entwistle, Davan Eustace, John Gentle, John Hanlon, Sylvia Hikins, Corinne Hunt, Ray Jobling, Alan Kershaw, Andrew McCoig, Bob Michell, Lesley Morgan, Bharat Nathwani, Graham Phillips, Colin Ranshaw, Michael Schofield, Douglas Simpson, David Thomson, Stephen Wells 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 (Peter Jones).

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from Lorna Jacobs and Marcia Saunders.

Guests Present by invitation were the following representatives of the Society’s branches and regions: Brian Curwain (Wessex region), Margaret Norval (secretary, Wirral branch) and Anthony Peacock (public relations officer, Sheffield branch). Also present were Jim Smith (chief pharmacist for England) and Carwen Wynne Howells (chief pharmacist for Wales).