Deputy Registrar appointed as Society FTP head leaves
Pharmacist Wendy Harris, deputy director of healthcare quality and head of patient safety and investigations at the Department of Health, has been appointed as the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s new Deputy Registrar. She will take responsibility for the Society’s regulatory functions from 9 June 2008.
The news of the appointment came as the Society announced the departure
of Mandie Lavin, its director of fitness to practise and legal affairs,
who is to take up the post of director of the Bar Standards Board.
The Society’s President Hemant Patel said that Miss Lavin had “made
a significant contribution to the modernisation of the Society’s
fitness-to-practise procedures, work which will lay the platform for
the creation of the new General Pharmaceutical Council”.
Miss Lavin, who joined the Society in 2003, said: “Pharmacy is
entering a new era and I wish the Council and staff every success as
they work towards the formation of the new professional body and General
Pharmaceutical Council.”
On Ms Harris’s appointment, Mr Patel said: “I am delighted
to welcome Wendy to the Society in what is a crucial strategic position
within the organisation. Wendy’s career demonstrates that she is
an accomplished, astute senior manager with excellent change management
and leadership credentials — fundamental requirements for the success
of this new role.”
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