The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7483 p715
22/29 December 2007

Society summary

December Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 11 and 12 December 2007. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this page and the following 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, 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 Chief Executive and Registrar (Jeremy Holmes). Also present were the vice-chairman of the Scottish Pharmacy Board (Frank Owens).

Guests Present by invitation were Susan Shelley, secretary of Oxfordshire branch, and Heena Bhakta, president of the British Pharmacy Students Association.