The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7440 p227
24 February 2007

Society summary

February Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in special session London on 15 February 2007. News about matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following page. 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), Martin Astbury, Jonathan Buisson, David Carter, Brian Curwain, Stephen Denyer, Dorothy Drury, Phillida Entwistle, John Gentle, John Hanlon, Sylvia Hikins, Corinne Hunt, Lorna Jacobs, Ray Jobling, Lesley Morgan, Colin Ranshaw, Marcia Saunders, Douglas Simpson, David Thomson 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 Pharmacy Board (Peter Jones).

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from Seema Agha, Sultan Dajani, Davan Eustace, Andrew Gush, Alan Kershaw, Bob Michell, Graham Phillips, Michael Schofield and Stephen Wells.