Colin Ranshaw resigns from the Council
Mr Ranshaw speaking at the Society’s AGM in May |
Colin Ranshaw has resigned from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council because he will need long-term sick leave after urgent orthopaedic surgery.
Mr Ranshaw, a hospital pharmacist, was elected to the Council in 2005
to fill the reserved place for a pharmacist resident in Wales. He had
previously been a member of the Society’s Welsh Executive from
1993 and had served as the executive’s chairman for three years
from 1998 to 2001.
As an advocate of devolution, Mr Ranshaw was instrumental in establishing
the
Society’s office in Wales and in launching the devolution review that led
to the formation of the Society’s national pharmacy boards.
At its meeting on 5 June, the Society’s Council agreed to hold a by-election
to elect a replacement for Mr Ranshaw, who resigned with just under a year of
his term of office still remaining.
(A by-election is automatically required by the Society’s Regulations when
a vacancy arises with more than a year of the term of office remaining, but when
the period is less than a year the Council must decide whether to hold a by-election
or to leave the position vacant.)
Mr Ranshaw told The Journal that, with so much going on in pharmacy at present,
he hoped a by-election would be held as soon
as possible to find a successor. He added that he hoped to be able to return
to pharmacy politics in due course, but expected to be out of action for at least
a year. |
The
Pharmaceutical Journal