The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7380 p755
17 December 2005

Society summary

December Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 6 and 7 December 2005. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following five 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, Sylvia Hikins, John Hanlon, Corinne Hunt, Lorna Jacobs, Ray Jobling, Alan Kershaw, Andrew McCoig, Bob Michell, Lesley Morgan, Bharat Nathwani, Graham Phillips, Colin Ranshaw, Marcia Saunders, 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).

Guests Present by invitation were Mike Ellis-Martin (Brighton branch), Kate Enright (East Kent branch ), Lynzey Dagg (British Pharmaceutical Students Association), Jeannette Howe (deputy chief pharmacist, Department of Health) and Jeremy Savage (deputy chief pharmacist, Wales).