The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7397 p485
22 April 2006

Society summary

Lawful for technician to serve on Welsh board

Legal advisers have confirmed that it is lawful under the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Charter for the new Welsh Pharmacy Board to include a pharmacy technician with full voting rights, elected by and from pharmacy technicians in Wales.

At the April Council meeting, the Secretary and Registrar said that the office had taken legal advice following a request by the Council at its February meeting. The advice was that the Charter, in allowing the Council to establish boards and other structures to advance professional leadership or support the development and regulation of the profession, did not limit the context of “the profession” to mean only pharmacists, nor did it restrict board membership in any way. It was not relevant that pharmacy technicians are not members of the Society and it was lawful for Wales to adopt the structure it had chosen.