The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7431 p749
16 December 2006

Society summary

December Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 5 and 6 December 2006. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following four pages. Further reports will appear next week. 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 President (Hemant Patel), the Vice-President (Gerald Alexander), the Treasurer (John Jolley), Seema Agha, Martin Astbury, Jonathan Buisson, David Carter, Brian Curwain, Sultan Dajani, Stephen Denyer, Dorothy Drury, Phillida Entwistle, Davan Eustace, John Gentle, Andrew Gush, John Hanlon, Sylvia Hikins, Corinne Hunt, Lorna Jacobs, Ray Jobling, Alan Kershaw, 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 An apology for absence was received from Bob Michell.

Guests Present by invitation were the following representatives of the Society’s branches and regions: Alastair Buxton (Buckinghamshire branch), David Evans (chairman, Anglia region) and David Stanton (Halifax branch).