Committee Member: Chris Smith

I qualified at Aston in 1973. Seventeen years with Boots the Chemists (as it was then). Then worked as a locum. Now employed by Manor Pharmacy, also as a session pharmacist by South staffs PCT.

Qualified as a supplementary prescriber 2005 and as an independent prescriber in 2007. First served on an LPC in Barnsley in 1976 and on the F.P.C.(Family practioner committee for you youngsters). Aims, “To push the profession into areas that fully utilize our skills and abilities”. Currently working on protocols for pharmacist independent prescribing in community pharmacy.

Other historical activities, Vice chairman Stratford on Avon chamber of trade, chairman Stratford crime prevention panel. Hobbies, my body finally told me to stop playing rugby in 2002. Still play five a side football and squash. (Don’t tell my wife!)

Committee Member: Andrew Morrison

I qualified in 1981 from Aston University and undertook a number of managerial positions and I opened my own Pharmacy from scratch in 1993 at Eccleshall, Staffordshire. I was elected to the LPC around 1995 and have represented contractors continuously since then.

I was formally a PEC pharmacist on South Western Staffordshire PCT from 2002 until the reorganisation of the PCT in 2006.I completed the Keele University Diploma in Community Pharmacy in 2004 and finished my MSc. at Keele in 2006 having investigated the reasons why patients purchased Zocor Heart-Pro.

My hobbies include squash and computers and I’m a passionate Rugby Union fan, supporting Northampton Saints RFC.