The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7506 p728
14 June 2008

Society summary

June Council meeting

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society met in London on 3 and 4 June 2008. News about various matters raised at the meeting appears on this and the following two pages. 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 (Steve Churton), the Vice-President (Martin Astbury), the Treasurer (Andrew Gush), Stephen Acres, Seema Agha, Gerald Alexander, Cathryn Brown, David Carter, Brian Curwain, Dorothy Drury, Catherine Duggan, Phillida Entwistle, John Gentle, Sylvia Hikins, Lorna Jacobs, Raymond Jobling, John Jolley, Alan Kershaw, Sue Kilby, Yvonne Liddell, Bob Michell, Alison Moore, 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).

Apologies were received from Margaret Allen, Nick Barber, Keith Wilson and Jane Ramsey.

Guests Present by invitation were the following representatives of the Society’s branches: Charles Flynn (Isle of Man branch), David Morgan (Clwyd branch), Mags Norva (Mersey region), Alan Robinson (Nottingham branch) and Jodie Taylor (British Pharmaceutical Students Association).