New Society Council low on hospital input
Colin Ranshaw: elected as the regional representative for Wales |
The newly constituted Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society will lack the input of any pharmacist involved in the delivery or management of clinical pharmacy services. The new 30-person Council, which will
be officially formed on 25 May, will include just one hospital pharmacist
(Colin Ranshaw, Principal Pharmacist Quality Control, Cardiff and Vale
Trust). Mr Ranshaw was elected as the regional representative for Wales,
after 13 of the 14 unreserved places were won by members of the Save
Our Society (SOS) campaign.
Alison Ewing, clinical director of pharmacy at the Liverpool and Broadgreen
NHS Trust lost her position on Council, failing by just 104 votes to
be re-elected. She follows Helen Howe, chief pharmacist, Addenbrookes
NHS Trust who last year lost her place on the Council.
Tony West, president of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists has said
that he will be contacting the Society to discuss how the new Council
will ensure that the views of hospital pharmacists are represented in
its deliberations. The new Council consists of 17 elected pharmacists
(three of whom are elected on a regional basis), one pharmacist appointed
by the Schools of Pharmacy, two pharmacy technicians and 10 lay-people
appointed by the NHS Appointments Commission.
Members of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
met at the Guild’s joint conference with the UK Clinical
Pharmacy Association to discuss a new structure of its parent trade
union
Amicus. This meeting replaced the annual general meeting which
has been
postponed. A paper from Amicus outlining proposals is now awaited. A report
on this
conference starts on p184.
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Hospital Pharmacist