Terms of office for elected members of national pharmacy boards
One third of the newly
elected members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's national pharmacy boards (PJ, 20 January, p81) will serve for only one year, a further third for two year and the remaining third for three years. This arrangement is to allow future elections to be held each year for one third of the elected places on each board, with successful candidates all normally serving for a full three years.
For pharmacists elected to the Scottish and Welsh boards and to unreserved
places on the English board, length of service depends on the number
of votes they received in the election. For pharmacists elected to sectoral
places on the English board and the pharmacy technicians elected in England
and Wales, length of service is either two or three years.
In the case of the English Pharmacy Board, the four members who will
serve for a full three-year term are those filling the reserved places
for community pharmacy (Sid Dajani), hospital pharmacy (David Miller),
industrial pharmacy (Stephen Wicks) and academic pharmacy (to be co-opted).
The pharmacist elected to represent the primary care/public service sector
(Beth Taylor) will serve for two years, as will the elected pharmacy
technician (Rachael Lemon) and the two pharmacists elected to unreserved
places with the highest numbers of votes — Paul Bennett and Gail
Thomas. The remaining pharmacist elected to unreserved places — Brian
Curwain, Richard Daniszewski, Christopher Morris and Lynsey Gilpin — will
each serve for one year.
The English board will also have three non-elected members, all of them
members of Council. Their terms of office on the board will be linked
to their Council terms of office. The three are the pharmacist elected
to the Council to represent the English constituency (Jonathan Buisson),
a pharmacist Council member registered in England (to be appointed) and
a lay Council member resident in England (to be appointed).
The terms of service for the 12 pharmacists elected to the Scottish Pharmacy
Board are straightforward: Rose Marie Parr, Angela Timoney, Frank Owens
and Ewan Black, the four with the highest numbers of votes, will serve
for three years; Derek Stewart, George Downie, Christine Bond and Sandra
Melville will serve for two years; and Howard McNulty, Charles Tait,
William Templeton and Alistair Jack will serve for a single year.
On the Welsh Pharmacy Board, only three pharmacists — Mair Davies,
Rowena McArtney and David Temple — will serve for three years,
with the fourth three-year spot filled by the elected pharmacy technician,
Fiona Price. Phillip Parry, Marc Donovan, Peter Jones and Carwyn Jones
will each serve for two years, and Richard Evans, Jodine Evans, Alan
Crabbe and Diane Heath will serve for one year.
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