Mr P. L. Marshall Davies (Chair) was Director of Boots The Chemists from 1991, previous Council Member of the The Royal Pharmaceutical Society and President from 2002-03. Current roles include Non-Executive Director, Newark and Sherwood NHS Primary Care Trust and Member of the Council for The Central Laboratory of The Research Council’s Audit Committee.

Mr Anthony Clinch has worked for Unilever PLC since 1955, in various capacities, his most recent position being Director of Finance for the Leverhulme Trust. Other current activities include: Member of the Investment Sub-Committee of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants, Governor/Trustee of Kingston Grammar School and Member of Charity Finance Directors Group.

Mr Peter Curphey was a Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council from 1994 - 2003; was elected a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1997; and was President from 1997-1998.

Professor Brian Edwards CBE is Chairman of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and was awarded the CBE in 1988. He is Emeritus Professor of Health Care Development, University of Sheffield (since 1996) and has had a varied career in NHS management and Academia. Advisor to WHO since 1982; and, President of the Hospital Committee for Europe.

Ms Christina Funnell is a graduate in social administration with over twenty five years experience working in the health sector in the charitable, public and private sectors. The main focuses of her work are: appropriate representation and action on the views of patients, consumers, users and staff; professional regulation and clinical standards; and governance.

Current roles include lay member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Councilor for the City of York.

Lord Newton of Braintree was the Conservative MP for Braintree from 1974 until 1997.

He was Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons from 1992 until 1997. He was raised to the peerage in 1997 as Lord Newton of Braintree of Coggeshall in the county of Essex.

Former Vice-chair of the All Party Pharmacy Group in Parliament and is Chair of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and Elected Honorary Fellow of the Society at the Council’s meeting in June 2004.

Professor Clive Smee has an academic background in social research and economics. He is the former Chief Economic Adviser, Department of Health (20 years). A visiting Professor of Economics, University of Surrey, his publications include a book on the role of economic advice in health policy making which was based on a series of lectures given at the Nuffield Trust.