The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7400 p573
13 May 2006

Society summary

Woman candidate tops poll in Council election

Dorothy Drury, a locum pharmacist in community practice, received the most votes in this year's election of members of the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Having already been on the Council for a year, Mrs Drury, the only woman candidate, has been re-elected along with Douglas Simpson, a Council member since 2003. Mrs Drury and Mr Simpson are joined by new members David Carter, Brian Curwain and Andrew Gush.

Mr Carter, from South Shields, is managing director and superintendent pharmacist of D. L. Carter & Son Ltd and vice-chairman of the Society’s Sunderland branch.

Dr Curwain, of Christchurch, Dorset, is chief pharmacist and research and development lead, New Forest Primary Care Trust, and Mr Gush, of Porthcawl, is a pharmacy business consultant and locum pharmacist.

Three candidates were unsuccessful. Andrew McCoig, a community pharmacist, has lost his seat after a year on the Society’s Council. Pradip Patel, pharmacy superintendent for Boots The Chemists, and Chris Cooper, health care technology programme director for Boots The Chemists, were seeking to be elected on to Council for the first time.

Out of the 45,742 voting papers issued, 9,720 were returned, 64 of which were disallowed as invalid. The percentage of voting papers returned was 21.25 per cent compared with 21.8 per cent in 2005 and 22.8 per cent in 2004.


Official notice, p579