Scotland West District Member's Report from Guild Council Meeting 14.6.2001

Annual General Meeting
The postponed Annual General Meeting was held on 13th June and was the last to be attended by Section General Secretary Gerry Looker. It was announced that RO Barry Jones would be taking over the role from this Council meeting. The meeting was inquorate but, as no decisions were required, it was agreed to proceed with the meeting.

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Special Council Meeting
This meeting always takes place after the AGM and elects the various Council office bearers. The meeting took place immediately before the Council meeting and elected

President	Helen Remington			Vice-President	Bob McArtney
Organisation Secretary	Anthony Oxley			Chair Pharm Whitley Council	Ron Pate
Chair Education & Science	Ann Slee			Chair Practice	Tony West
Treasurer	Gerry Wilson			Communications Officer	Gillian Arr-Jones

Pharmaceutical Whitley Council
	Anthony Oxley	Simon Riley	Colin Rodden	Helen Silcock	Tony West	Gerry Wilson	Chris Cairns (reserve)

International Committee
	Helen Remington	Bob McArtney	Peter Cooke
Auditors
	Anthony Oxley	Tony West

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New District Members

Council agreed to co-opt Martin Pratt and Richard Cattell as District Members for Mercia and South West/Wessex respectively.
	Martin Pratt	Richard Cattell

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Council Meeting
A proposal was accepted to add National Secretary reports to the Council Agenda in the future. This will mean that my current District Members Report will in future be split into District Member and Secretary for Scotland reports.

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Future of GHP
There was considerable discussion on the option appraisal produced for Council by the President and the Chair of PWC. This took the majority of the meeting so discussion on other matters was necessarily limited. It was noted that the status quo was not an option. It appears MSF only want to deal with terms and conditions matters and regard the GHP as expensive. Guild Council Executive met with Roger Spiller at the end of the meeting to discuss MSF views on the GHP.

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Weekend School 2002
There was a short discussion on the use of conference organisers to assist the organising committee.

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Pre-registration year changes
Some concern was expressed regarding RPSGB plans for changing the pre-registration year to ensure all graduates experienced both community and hospital pharmacy. The concept may be fine but the practicalities need to be sorted out. It was agreed that the President would write to RPSGB on this matter.

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Role of the District Member
District Members were asked to comment on the current description of what their role should be, so that it is possible to consider the possible repercussions of changing district boundaries.

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Emergency Duty Allowance
In the face of hostility from Pharmaceutical Whitley Management Side (MS) on any discussions on EDA, Staff Side (SS) suggested a survey of Trusts to find out where EDA has been increased, MS refused to even consider such a move. GHP has therefore decided that the only way forward is through Industrial Tribunals. To do this they need to know of both successes and refusals of EDA claims. Any information should be sent to me at scotsec@ghpscot.org.uk. Meanwhile, SS are preparing for more Whitley Council meetings next year.

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Secretary for Scotland Report
I reported that it had been agreed that the senior GHP officials in Scotland should meet on a 6 monthly basis with RO Michael Fuller and Chief Pharmacist Bill Scott.
The planned meeting of ASTCP for 8th June had been postponed until 10th August.

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