The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7389 p243
25 February 2006

Society summary

February Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 14 and 15 February 2006. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following three pages. These reports 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, Sultan Dajani, Stephen Denyer, Dorothy Drury, Davan Eustace, John Hanlon, Sylvia Hikins, Corinne Hunt, Lorna Jacobs, Ray Jobling, Alan Kershaw, Bob Michell, Lesley Morgan, Bharat Nathwani, Graham Phillips, Colin Ranshaw, Marcia Saunders, Douglas Simpson, David Thomson, Stephen Wells and the Secretary and Registrar (Ann Lewis). Also present were the acting chairman of the Society’s Scottish Executive (Rose Marie Parr) and the chairman of the Welsh Executive (Peter Jones).

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from Jonathan Buisson, Phillida Entwistle, John Gentle, Andrew McCoig and Michael Schofield.

Guests Present by invitation were the following representatives of the Society’s branches and regions: Glyn Trueman (secretary, Northumbrian branch); Simon Gaines (Hull branch); Michael Burden (Leicestershire and Rutland branch).