How RPS members can run for election to the English Pharmacy Board in 2015

The election scheme for the 2015 election provides for five places on the English Pharmacy Board for members or Fellows who work or live wholly or mainly in England, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. The eligibility criteria are set out below.

Of the five places, four are to be allocated as follows:

  • One for a member or Fellow whose substantive practice is in the community practice sector;
  • One for a member or Fellow whose substantive practice is in the hospital sector;
  • One for a member or Fellow whose substantive practice is in the primary care sector;
  • One for a member or Fellow whose substantive practice is in the industrial sector.

The fifth place is open to any eligible member or Fellow.

In the above context, “substantive practice” is taken to refer to a situation where a pharmacist spends more than 50% of his or her professional working time in practice in the sector in question.

Nominations for candidates in the English Pharmacy Board election must be made on the form issued by the Independent Scrutineer, UK Engage, and must be signed by ten member nominators whose own address on the Society’s database must be in England, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man or overseas*. Members who nominate candidates must have completed 2015 membership processes.

* A member or Fellow who is resident overseas at the time the electoral roll is closed shall be entitled to nominate a candidate for the English Pharmacy Board unless he or she has opted to be an elector of one of the other national pharmacy boards.

Nominations for election to these vacancies must be received by noon on 27 March 2015. Nominations should preferably be submitted by email to
rps@uk-engage.org
. Alternatively, nominations may be submitted by post or by hand to UK Engage, Image House, 10 Acorn Business Park, Heaton Lane, Stockport SK4 1AS. For further information, please contact the UK Engage Helpline on 0345 209 3770.

A nomination may be withdrawn by notice in writing, signed by the prospective candidate and delivered to
rps@uk-engage.org
or UK Engage, Image House, 10 Acorn Business Park, Heaton Lane, Stockport SK4 1AS no later than 5pm on 9 April 2015.

Eligibility criteria

  1. A member shall be eligible for election only if he or she is a member or Fellow of the Society.
  2. A retired member of the Society shall be eligible for election.
  3. A member or Fellow may only stand for election to one board.
  4. A member or Fellow shall be eligible for election to the English Pharmacy Board only if s/he works or lives wholly or mainly in England, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.
  5. If, by resolution of a board, any elected member of that board has ceased to meet the requirements relating to his or her residency he or she shall cease to be a member of the board in question.
  6. Any elected member of a board who changes his or her substantive practice following his or her election shall be eligible to serve the full term for which he or she was elected.
  7. No member or Fellow shall be eligible for election if he or she has failed to pay by the date and time fixed for the return of nomination forms (27 March 2015) any subscription or other debt due and payable by him or her to the Society.
  8. No member or Fellow shall be eligible for election if he or she has been charged with a criminal offence or has been notified by the Society or any professional, regulatory or public body that he or she is subject to investigation in relation to his or her conduct or competence, and the matter is unresolved.
  9. No member or Fellow shall be eligible for election if he or she is employed by the Society.

Periods of office

Board members are elected for a three-year period.

Timetable

The electoral roll will be closed at 5pm on 9 April 2015. Only those members and Fellows who have paid the 2015 membership fee by this date will be eligible to vote.

It is expected that voting papers will be emailed (or posted if requested by 9 April) to the electorate on or about 30 April 2015. The deadline for voting (either online or by post) will be noon on 22 May 2015.

Newly elected board members will take office at 12.01am on 24 June 2015.

 

Howard Duff, returning officer for England

English Pharmacy Board election 2015

Last updated
Citation
The Pharmaceutical Journal, PJ, 21 February 2015, Vol 294, No 7850;294(7850):DOI:10.1211/PJ.2015.20067834

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