Community Pharmacy Wales (CPW) has elected a new Chair and Vice-Chair for the forthcoming year.
At its annual meeting, CPW board members elected Pembrokeshire pharmacist Phil Parry as its new Chair, a post he held for some for some 12 years prior to 2009.
Phil owns and is superintendent of Drigarn Cyf which operates as E P Parry Pharmacy in Crymych and has been a member of various health and pharmacy bodies throughout his career.
A graduate of the Welsh School of Pharmacy, he is also a member of the Welsh Board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the Welsh Pharmaceutical Committee and Chair of the Hywel Dda Health Professionals Forum as a result of which he is an associate member of the health board. In 1982 he became one of the first pharmacists in the UK to earn a Diploma in Agricultural and Veterinary Pharmacy.
He returned as a member of the CPW Board in 2015 after a five-year break. And before 2001 he served as a member and Chair of the former Welsh Central Pharmaceutical Committee, the predecessor body of CPW, and was elected founder Chair of CPW on its formation. Phil has previously served as a Health Authority member, a Family Health Service Authority member and a Local Health Board Non-Executive member.
He succeeds Mark Ireland who didn’t seek re-election as Chair, but remains a member of the CPW Board.
Additionally, Paul Mayberry was elected as Vice-Chair for the coming year. Also a graduate of the Welsh School of Pharmacy, Paul is the owner of award-winning Mayberry Pharmacies, a group of community pharmacies in South East Wales and is a director and co-founder of the buying group Cambrian Alliance. Paul is a member of the Independent Company Chemist Alliance and AIMp. He is a member of the Welsh Pharmaceutical Committee, the All Wales Homecare Committee and the Cardiff & Vale UHB Community Pharmacy Operational Group. He is the Welsh Pharmacist of the Year, having previously won Community Pharmacy of the Year.
