The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7479 p588
24 November 2007

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Letters to the Editor

The Council

We want to know how Council members vote

From Mr D. J. Livingstone, MRPharmS

The reply from the President, Hemant Patel, to the issues raised by Paul Breame (PJ, 17 November, p562) is wholly inadequate.

Mr Patel states: “We will continue to plan ahead to design a professional body based on the needs and views of our members … encouraging members to vote in Society elections.”

Mr Patel and his fellow Council members should be aware that I and, I believe, most members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society do wish to know how individual Council members vote on such issues as the fees increase. This should not take any debate; we paying members should have an unequivocal right to know.

Mr Patel talks of collective responsibility — as far as I am aware the Council is supposed to act like a parliament with free debate which should be open to scrutiny. It would appear that the President takes a different view and sees the Council as his cabinet.

Few members currently vote in Council elections. When we see our views being ignored by an anonymous majority of the Council, it is a source of wonder that any vote at all.

Duncan Livingstone
Lancing, West Sussex

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