RCoA 2022 Annual General Meeting

Published: 02/12/2022

Many thanks to our Members and Fellows who attended the College’s Annual General Meeting on 1 December 2022 to vote on a number of motions, including changes to the College’s governance structures, the rules that set out how we are run.   

We are pleased to report that all motions presented were approved and would like to thank our AGM attendees for engaging so positively with us.  

We are also immensely grateful for the continued engagement of our members as we developed and refined our governance proposals over the past nine months. 

The papers discussed at the meeting can be seen here 

Under the governance rules in place at the time of the meeting, voting percentages were calculated from the number of ‘yes’ votes compared to the number of members present, eligible to vote and logged in to the voting platform. 

The votes per motion were:  

To receive the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 9 December 2021 (Paper 1) 
MOTION
: That the Minutes be approved 

 

Members present and eligible to vote 

98 

Votes for 

88 

Votes against 

Members eligible to vote but who did not vote 

Majority percentage 

90% 

Motion 

Carried 

 

 

To receive the Minutes of the Extraordinary General Meeting of 10 February 2022 (Paper 2) 
MOTION
: That the Minutes be approved 

 

Members present and eligible to vote 

103 

Votes for 

86 

Votes against 

Members eligible to vote but who did not vote 

16 

Majority percentage 

83% 

Motion 

Carried 

 

 

To approve the proposed changes to the College’s governing documents. (Paper 3) 

 

To be approved, these motions required a two-thirds majority of those present and eligible to vote. 

 

The number of voting members present varied across the motions; the majority percentage was calculated per motion. 

 
MOTION: THAT, in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Trustees, the Ordinances be amended in relation to ‘Amplifying the membership voice’ as proposed in Paper 3 of the meeting papers subject to and with effect from the approval of the Privy Council. 

 

Members present and eligible to vote 

114 

Votes for 

106 

Votes against 

Members eligible to vote but who did not vote 

Majority percentage (67% threshold) 

93% 

Motion 

Carried 

 

MOTION: THAT, in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Trustees, the Charter and Ordinances be amended in relation to ‘Compliance matters’ as proposed in Paper 3 of the meeting papers, subject to and with effect from the approval of the Privy Council. 

 

Members present and eligible to vote 

111 

Votes for 

99 

Votes against 

Members eligible to vote but who did not vote 

10 

Majority percentage (67% threshold) 

89% 

Motion 

Carried 

 

MOTION: THAT, in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Trustees, the Charter and Ordinances be amended in relation to ‘Efficiency matters’ as proposed in Paper 3 of the meeting papers, subject to and with effect from the approval of the Privy Council. 

 

Members present and eligible to vote 

110 

Votes for 

96 

Votes against 

Members eligible to vote but who did not vote 

13 

Majority percentage (67% threshold) 

87% 

Motion 

Carried 

 

MOTION: THAT, in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Trustees, the Charter and Ordinances be amended in relation to ‘Other clarifications’ as proposed in Paper 3 of the meeting papers, subject to and with effect from the approval of the Privy Council. 

 

Members present and eligible to vote 

109 

Votes for 

100 

Votes against 

Members eligible to vote but who did not vote 

Majority percentage (67% threshold) 

92% 

Motion 

Carried 

 

ADVISORY MOTION: THAT the Ordinances should be amended in relation to the composition of the Board of Trustees as proposed in Appendix 4 and Appendix 5 of Paper 3 of the meeting papers. 

 

Members present and eligible to vote 

109 

1 Yes – Either Option A or Option B 

10 

2 Yes – Option A (smaller board) 

47 

3 Yes – Option B (larger board) 

41 

4 No 

Members eligible to vote but who did not vote 

Result 

Option A put forward 

 

In this advisory motion, 90% of members voted for a change to the composition of the Board of Trustees. Option A received the largest number of votes, especially when adding the votes of those members who wanted change and were willing to support either option. Therefore, Option A was put to the following motion: 

 

MOTION: THAT, in accordance with the preference expressed by the membership in the previous vote, the Ordinances be amended in relation to ‘Board of Trustees’ Composition’ as per Option A as shown in Appendix 4 of Paper 3 of the meeting papers, subject to and with effect from the approval of the Privy Council. 

 

Members present and eligible to vote 

108 

Votes for 

80 

Votes against 

Members eligible to vote but who did not vote 

20 

Majority percentage (67% threshold) 

74% 

Motion 

Carried 

 

To approve the rates of subscriptions for the College, the Faculty of Pain Medicine and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (Paper 4) 

 

A simple majority of those present and eligible to vote was required for this motion to pass. 

 

MOTION: That the resolution made by the Board of Trustees determining the rates of annual subscription from April 2023, in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance 4 be approved 

 

Members present and eligible to vote 

82 

Votes for 

48 

Votes against 

11 

Members eligible to vote but who did not vote 

23 

Majority percentage (50% threshold) 

59% 

Motion 

Carried 

 

Motions submitted to the Chief Executive Officer in advance of the meeting, by the notified deadline of 9 November 2022 

None were submitted 

 

Dr Fiona Donald  

RCoA President