The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7413 p197
12 August 2006

Society summary

August Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 1 and 2 August 2006. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following four 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 Vice-President (Gerald Alexander), the Treasurer (John Jolley), Seema Agha, David Carter, Brian Curwain, Sultan Dajani, Stephen Denyer, Dorothy Drury, Phillida Entwistle, Davan Eustace, John Gentle, Andrew Gush, John Hanlon, Corinne Hunt, Lorna Jacobs, Ray Jobling, Alan Kershaw, Bob Michell, Lesley Morgan, 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 (Rose Marie Parr) and the chairman of the Welsh Executive (Peter Jones).

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from the President (Hemant Patel), Martin Astbury, Jonathan Buisson and Sylvia Hikins.

Guests Present by invitation were the following representatives of the Society’s branches: Patricia Gardner (Weald of Kent) and Paul Gadsden (Northern Scottish).