The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7456 p715
16 June 2007

Society summary

June Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 5 and 6 June 2007. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following five pages.

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 (Martin Astbury), the Treasurer (Andrew Gush), Stephen Acres, Seema Agha, Gerald Alexander, Cathryn Brown, Jonathan Buisson, David Carter, Steve Churton, Brian Curwain, Stephen Denyer, Dorothy Drury, Phillida Entwistle, John Gentle, John Hanlon, Sylvia Hikins, Lorna Jacobs, Ray Jobling, John Jolley, Alan Kershaw, Sue Kilby, Bob Michell, Lesley Morgan, Graham Phillips, Jane Ramsey, Marcia Saunders, Douglas Simpson, David Thomson and the Secretary and Registrar (Ann Lewis).

Also present were the chairman of the Scottish Pharmacy Board (Rose Marie Parr) and the chairman of the Welsh Pharmacy Board (Peter Jones).

Guests Present by invitation were the following representatives of the Society’s branches and regions: Marilyn Davies (secretary of Morgannwg branch), Paul McGorry (Yorkshire region), Brian Midcalf (Leeds branch) and Preeti Sharma (Hounslow branch).