Council agrees to hold fewer (but longer) meetings in 2007
The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has approved an experimental schedule of Council and committee meetings in 2007 that will reduce the number of full Council meetings during the year from six to four.
Each Council meeting will occupy two full days rather than beginning
in the afternoon on the first day. In addition, the number of Council
two-day strategic review/working days will increase to four.
The schedule, adopted at the August
Council meeting, also
sees the standing committees moving towards four meetings a year, interpolated
with the Council, and the introduction of scheduled days for meetings
of working groups.
The new schedule had been proposed as a way of making the operation of
the Council and its committees more effective and efficient. Among other
things, it takes into account the growing workload of the committees
and the increasing use of task-oriented working groups, the need for
a committees and working groups to have adequate time for preparing recommendations
for the Council.
It also reflects the Council’s wish to spend more time on leadership
and professional issues, which it usually does in the comparatively open
and informal atmosphere of strategy/review days before going on to consider
formal proposals brought before a regular Council meeting.
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