Abstract

My final year as Honorary Secretary to MSSVD is now drawing to a close. The final challenge I set myself is to have circulated a summary of the main activities of the society including accounts and financial report in advance of the annual general meeting. It has required the hard work of the oYcers of the society, the secretariat and finance depart-ment at the RSM, and Graham Tomlinson, charitable governance adviser. The annual report was printed in November and circu-lated to members. There are now 657 UK members of the society, with 101 overseas members and 31 honorary life members, 21 of whom are resi-dent in the United Kingdom. There were 62 new members last year, of which 34 were nurses and health advisers. There are a number of MSSVD members to whom we paid tribute. These included Dr Ratnatunga;