Scotland West District Member's Report from Guild Council Meeting 5.4.2001

Annual General Meeting and Elections to Council
There was considerable discussion on the way forward with these matters. The Annual General Meeting has been rescheduled for 7-9pm 13th June 2001. It will take place after the Group Secretaries Meeting 1-6pm.

A corrected version of the Annual Report, containing those reports omitted from the circulated version, will be available on the www.ghp.org.uk website.

The election process, including a request for nominations for election, is to be repeated. If you wished to stand for Council as either District or National Member, please contact me or Rhona Dykes for information.

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Presidents Report
The President reported on several meetings she had attended including one with Alan Milburn and several leading MSF NHS officers. There was significant discussion on the Public Private Partnership arrangement. It is hoped that Mr Milburn is now more aware that there is a professional aspect of MSF as well as the terms and conditions side.

It was reported that the recent document on a human resource strategy for NHS clinical scientist is also meant to include pharmacists.

Mr Milburn was not prepared to move on announcing those groups to be included in the new pay review body under Agenda for Change as he feels it is a useful bargaining counter. The position will be acceptance of all of the strategy or none.

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GHP and MSF
It was noted that Council has major concerns over -

• MSF position on the professional and international activities of GHP
• MSF reaction to the Service Level Agreement and administrative support
• NHS support in the new union

It has been decided that an options appraisal will therefore be carried out by Council.

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GHP Strategic Plan
The GHP Strategic Plan for 2001 - 2005 can be found on the www.ghpscot.org.website as either the executive summary or the full document. The Plan states what the GHP intends to do over the next five years. I will be shortly be asking for ideas on how you think we can achieve this.

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GHP / RPSGB Hospital Pharmacy Leaflet
A new hospital pharmacy leaflet was unveiled at the Council meeting. To be launched at the Weekend School, it is aimed at Chief Executives and politicians more than at patients.

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IT Special Interest Group
It was announced that the Guild is to set up an IT SIG. It will be for anyone interested in electronic prescribing, robotics, EPR, web based technology or other aspects of pharmacy IT. If anyone is interested in joining, please contact me.

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AAH National Weekend School Survey
Council discussed the results of the survey on the Saturday afternoon of the Weekend School.

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Effectiveness of Hospital Pharmacy
The review of the above topic has been awarded to a group from Manchester comprising Damien Child, Judy Cantrill and Jonathon Cooke. They have already started work on the award which should be completed by October.

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AEEU merger
It was reported that the membership of both unions have voted in favour of a merger. In MSF, the vote was 80% in favour with a turnout of over 30% of the membership. In the AEEU, the vote was 84% in favour with a turnout of 29%.

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'ghp'
All members should have received a copy of 'ghp' at the beginning of April. If any member did not receive it, please contact me.

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GHP website
A demonstration site was shown at the Weekend School to give a flavour of what the new www.ghp.org.uk site will look like. Delegates were asked to comment on the site and what they would want to see on it.

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