The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7497 p446
12 April 2008

Society summary

April Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 1 and 2 April 2008. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this 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, Raymond 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 chairmen of the English Pharmacy Board (Paul Bennett), the Scottish Pharmacy Board (Rose Marie Parr) and the Welsh Pharmacy Board (Peter Jones).

Guests Present by invitation were the following representatives of the Society’s branches: Sue Carter (Southampton branch), James Davies (general secretary, British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association), Kathryn Featherstone (Border region), Maggie Franklin (Crawley, Horsham and Reigate branch) and Anne Lorimer (Edinburgh and Lothians branch).