Ann Lewis announces decision to retire as Secretary and Registrar this autumn
Ann Lewis, Secretary and Registrar of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has announced her decision to retire during 2007.
Miss Lewis has written to Council members to say that she will retire
in the autumn.
Ms Lewis was appointed as Secretary and Registrar in 1998, following
more than 10 years’ service on the Society’s Council.
Speaking about her decision, Ms Lewis said: “It has been my privilege
to have been in a position where I have been able to help the pharmacy
profession confirm its clinical role at the very start of the 21st century.
The Society’s ‘Pharmacy in a new age’ and ‘Building
the future’ initiatives set the future direction for the profession.
The strategic objectives resulting from these pieces of work including
pharmacist prescribing and pharmacy involvement in public health have
been achieved through adoption by Government as policy for the profession
and by seeking the necessary legislative changes through recent health
Acts.
“The Society and the Council will face a time of significant change
over the next few years and it is in the interests of the organisation
to
appoint my successor to take this new programme of work forward.”
The Society’s Council has agreed a succession plan for appointing a new
chief executive and the implementation process will begin shortly.
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