New statutory committee members and advisers are announced
The names of committee members, legal advisers, clinical advisers and reserve committee members have been announced for three of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's four new statutory committees.
The new committees are established under the Pharmacists and Pharmacy
Technicians Order 2007 to replace the Society’s Infringements Committee
and Statutory Committee (although the latter will continue in its current
form until it has completed cases already referred to it).
The names of the members of the Investigating, Disciplinary and Health
Committees have been announced but the members of the Registration Appeals
Committee will not be named until early May, when their training has
been completed.
The appointments have been made by the Society’s Appointments Group,
which was asked by the Council in June 2005 to appoint 72 posts — 51
for committee members, 12 for legal advisers and nine for clinical advisers.
In addition, the group recommended 13 candidates to be invited to be
reserve members for three years.
The independent chairman of the Appointments Group, Elizabeth Filkin,
former Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, said: “I am delighted
by the high calibre of the people we were able to appoint from public
and private sectors and the pharmacy profession. … We made the appointments
through national advertisement, written tests and rigorous interviews
and appointed on merit. Those appointed come from across the UK and are
varied in age, gender and ethnic mix. We were pleased that we secured
a large number of applications.”
The names of all
the new appointments are set out on p326.
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