The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7446 p407
7 April 2007

Society summary

March Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 27 and 28 March 2007. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following page. Further reports will appear next week. These reports 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, Sultan Dajani, Stephen Denyer, Dorothy Drury, Phillida Entwistle, Davan Eustace, John Gentle, Andrew Gush, John Hanlon, Sylvia Hikins, Corinne Hunt, Lorna Jacobs, Ray Jobling, Alan Kershaw, Bob Michell, Lesley Morgan, Graham Phillips, Colin Ranshaw, Marcia Saunders, Michael Schofield, Douglas Simpson, David Thomson and the Secretary and Registrar (Ann Lewis).

Also present were the chairmen of the English Pharmacy Board (Paul Bennett), the Scottish Pharmacy Board (Rose Marie Parr) and Welsh Pharmacy Board (Peter Jones).

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from Seema Agha and Stephen Wells.

Guests Present by invitation were Wendy Gidman (representative of the Society’s Central Lancashire branch), Barry Clarke (treasurer of the Society’s Sherwood region) and Jen de Val (president, British Pharmaceutical Students Association).