SPF members to be balloted on organisation merger

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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7376 p623
19 November 2005

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SPF members to be balloted on organisation merger

Members of the Scottish Pharmaceutical Federation are to be balloted on the proposed merger of the SPF with the Scottish Pharmaceutical General Council (PJ, 29 October, p540).

There will also be a special meeting to consider the matter in Glasgow on 15 December.

Speaking after this week’s SPF executive committee meeting, James Semple, SPF chairman, said: “We accepted some time ago that with the changes in community pharmacy in post-devolution Scotland, a single body to represent Scottish community pharmacy contractors was the only way forward. We will shortly be having a postal ballot of our members with a recommendation to wind up the SPF and transfer its residual funds to the SPGC.”

Two reasons he cited for the merger are the importance of communication between pharmacists in Scotland and the Scottish Executive, and a decreasing pool of individuals able to sit on national committees.