The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7372 p529
22 October 2005

Society summary

October Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 11 and 12 October 2005. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following two 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, Lorna Jacobs, 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 vice-chairman of the Society’s Scottish Executive (Rose Marie Parr) and the chairman of the Welsh Executive (Peter Jones).

Apologies An apology for absence was received from Marcia Saunders.

Guests Present by invitation were Gautam Paul (president, British Pharmaceutical Students Association) and the following representatives of the Society’s branches: Mohammed Ahmed (Doncaster branch), Clive Goalen (Harrogate branch), Gerard Scott (Isle of Wight branch), Mark Burdon (Sunderland branch), Dennis Higgins (Thames Valley branch).