The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7473 p416
13 October 2007

Society summary

October Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 2 and 3 October 2007. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this and the preceding page. 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, Margaret Allan, Cathryn Brown, Jonathan Buisson, David Carter, Steve Churton, Brian Curwain, Dorothy Drury, Phillida Entwistle, John Gentle, John Hanlon, Sylvia Hikins, Lorna Jacobs, Ray Jobling, John Jolley, Alan Kershaw, Sue Kilby, Lesley Morgan, Graham Phillips, Jane Ramsey, Marcia Saunders, Douglas Simpson, David Thomson and the Chief Executive and Registrar (Jeremy Holmes).

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

Apologies Apologies for absence were received from Stephen Denyer and Bob Michell.

Guests Present by invitation were the following representatives of the Society’s branches and regions: Richard Daniszewski (chairman, Doncaster branch), Bill Dawson (Wessex region), and Sarah McSorley (Ayrshire branch).