2013 National Pharmacy Board elections

Nominations closed at noon on Thursday 28th March.

For further information about the elections  please see the following pages: 

Voting in the National Pharmacy Board elections will open on Friday 10th May and will close at noon on Friday 31st May.

On the advice of the Returning Officers, the effective date for each National Pharmacy Board is one minute past midnight on the dates below:

  • Welsh Pharmacy Board –  24th June 2013
  • English Pharmacy Board – 26th June 2013
  • Scottish Pharmacy Board –  2nd July 2013

At the first meeting of each Board there will be a formal session where the Chair, Vice-Chair and the additional member(s) to serve on the Assembly will be elected.

Here are details of the current National Pharmacy Boards and the respective period of office for each Board member:

English Pharmacy Board

End of Office Sector place Elected Candidate
Year 1
(2013)
Community* David Carter
Community* Graham Phillips
Hospital* Tony West
Any Sector* Sharon ‘Sibby’ Buckle
Year 2
(2014)
Community – Locum Stephen Hadley
Community – Employee Martin Astbury
Academic Casual Vacancy
Any Sector Sandra Gidley
Any Sector Ashok Soni
Year 3
(2015)
Community Sultan ‘Sid’ Dajani
Hospital David Branford
Primary Care Elizabeth Butterfield
Industrial Shilpa Gohil
Any Sector Claire Anderson

*sectoral places available in the 2013 English Pharmacy Board election. In addition, to the four places that have reached the end of their term, there is one casual vacancy. This is for the academic place, for a tenure of one year, due to a resignation from the Board in December 2012. This position will be filled by the Member or Fellow from the academic sector with the highest number of votes remaining in the election after the four regular places (which carry three year terms) on the English Pharmacy Board have been filled.

Scottish Pharmacy Board

End of Office Elected Candidate
Year 1
(2013)
Robert McGregor
Jonathan Burton
John McAnaw
Year 2
(2014)
Andrea Smith
Martin Green
Ewan Black
Alpana Mair
Year 3
(2015)
Anne Boyter
David Thomson
John Cromarty

Sandra Melville

The 2013 Scottish Pharmacy Board election provides for three places on the Scottish Pharmacy Board (which carry three year tenures). Places on the Scottish Pharmacy Board are not allocated on the basis of sectors.

Welsh Pharmacy Board

 

End of Office Sector place Elected Candidate
Year 1
(2013)
Community* Keith Davies
Community* Philip Parry
Any Sector* Gareth Holyfield
Year 2
(2014)
Community – Employee Marc Donovan
Community - Locum Richard Evans
Hospital Casual Vacancy
Any Sector Sarah Cockbill
Year 3
(2015)
Community Jodine Fec
Hospital Wendy Davies
Primary Care Lynwen Jones
Any Sector Mair Davies

*sectoral places available in the 2013 Welsh Pharmacy Board election. In addition, to the three places that have reached the end of their term, there is one casual vacancy. This is for the hospital place, for a tenure of one year, due to a resignation from the Board in November 2012. This position will be filled by the Member or Fellow from the hospital sector with the highest number of votes remaining in the election after the three regular places (which carry three year terms) on the Welsh Pharmacy Board have been filled.