The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7396 p453
15 April 2006

Society summary

April Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 4 and 5 April 2006. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following page. Further reports will appear in next week’s issue. 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, 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, 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 (Rose Marie Parr) and the chairman of the Welsh Executive (Peter Jones).

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from Bharat Nathwani and Graham Phillips.

Guests Present by invitation were Bill Brookes (Mersey region), Catherine Cooke (Bristol branch) and Richard Taggart (British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association).