From next week, members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society will be asked to vote on a proposed amended Royal Charter.It is worth spending some time considering this because one effect of the amended Charter will be to end direct elections to the Society's Council: instead, members of the proposed Assembly will be nominated by the national pharmacy boards. Election to one or more of those boards may require the votes of only 300 members (whereas those sitting on the Council generally need to secure around 3,000 votes for election) so this ending of "one pharmacist, one vote" is a serious matter.
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