A guide to the Society’s national pharmacy boards
Following the completion
of the elections to the Society's national pharmacy boards (see p81), the boards come into being officially at 12.01am on 21 January, replacing the Scottish and Welsh executives and introducing an English body into the Society for the first time.
Each board will begin life with 12 members, although the full complement
of the English board should be 15. It should consist of six pharmacists
elected to unreserved places, five pharmacists elected to reserved sectoral
places (community, hospital, industry, academia and primary care/public
health), one elected pharmacy technician, the pharmacist elected to the
Council to represent the constituency of England, the Isle of Man and
the Channel Islands (Jonathan Buisson), plus one further pharmacist Council
member and one lay Council member, both appointed by the Council. The
board will begin its life three short of the full number because there
was no candidate for the academic sectoral place and the Council decided
not to make the two appointments from among its own number until after
the elected places had been filled. At its first meeting, the board will
decide whether to co-opt an academic pharmacist.
The Scottish and Welsh boards will essentially consist of their 12 elected
members but will have power to co-opt. The President and Vice-President
will be ex officio members of all three boards. In Scotland and Wales,
the pharmacist Council member elected in the national constituency will
be an ex officio member of the board, as will a lay Council member resident
in the country (or a Council nominee).
The newly elected members of each board will first get together at an
induction day, held on 24 January for the Scottish board, 25 January
for the Welsh board and 30 January for the English board.
Each board is scheduled to hold its first formal meeting during February,
with three further meetings during 2007. The dates are as follows: England,
22 February, 13 April, 18 July and 17 October; Scotland, 21 February,
18 April, 13 June and 24 October; Wales, 6 February, 26 April, 5 July
and 11 October.
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