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

President	Tony West			Vice-President	Anthony Oxley
Organisation Secretary	Don Page			Chair Terms & Conditions Committee	Dave Miller
Chair Education & Development	Richard Cattell			Chair Practice	Andy Alldred
Treasurer	Jim Bannerman			Communications & Recruitment Officer	Martin Pratt
Chair of the Editorial Board	Vilma Gilis

Terms & Conditions Committee
	Andy Alldred	David Miller	Colin Rodden	Vilma Gilis	Helen Davis

International Committee
	Tony West	Bob McArtney	Richard Cattell	Anthony Oxley
Auditors
	Tracey Boyce	Simon Mynes

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Council Meeting

Council Membership
The meeting noted the departure of several Council members - Ron Pate, Peter Cooke, Chris Cairns, Suzanne Khalid and Janet Whyatt.

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Agenda for Change
The Chief Pharmacist profile is now ready to go to JEWP for ratification. Apparently, the pre-registration pharmacist profile is being held back for benchmarking against other similar training roles. The GHP matching guide appears to be working quite well. It is agreed, though, that some specialist posts will have to go through the full JAQ/JE process. Matters regarding unsocial hours and on-call are still under discussion.

The GHP AFC bulletin is being well received, with grateful thanks to the author.

Richard Cattell reported on the meeting at RPSGB on KSF issues. It looks as if the final draft of the Pharmacy version will not be ready until late 2005. The KSF Development Group is looking to map competencies surrounding administration of medicines. The next draft version should be due out in June.

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Duthie Version 2
Duthie 2 is almost ready to be released. It is with Clive Jackson at NPC. Further work is to be done on Controlled Drugs aspects.

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Professional Standards Consultation
There has been a consultation on professional standards for Pharmacy Technicians for England & Wales, but nothing about Scotland. The Professional Secratery is to send notes to the Scottish members of Council, and copy the GHP response to Bill Scott, Nigel Graham and David Thomson.

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Annual Conference 2005
This is to be run with UKCPA, with suggested venue as the Moat House, Glasgow. Dates suggested as 16-18 April 2005 to avoid EAHP (16-18 March in Lisbon). The venue is to be considered by a joint group from GHP, UKCPA and Profile.

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Annual Conference 2006
It has been suggested that this take place in the Birmingham area.

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Ivax Award
Ivax is to sponsor an award about innovation in leadership. This will be administered by the joint GHP/UKCPA Leadership and Management Development Interest Group (LMDIG). Graham Hall (UKCPA) will chair the group.

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Pensions
Richard Cattell reported on a focus group looking at pensions. The Government review will come out in 2005 and there will be a consultation in the autumn of that year, closing at Christmas. It is likely to affect members joining the NHS pension scheme in the future.

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GHP Administrator
It was noted that Preeti Farooki, GHP Administrator, would be leaving Amicus at the end of June. Discussions on succession planning arrangements are to take place.

Colin Rodden
6.4.04

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