EXHIBIT (10)(c)
                                                               Execution Copy

                                  AMENDMENT TO

THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO  ___________________________________  (the  "Agreement")
dated  as of  May  1,  2001,  between  West  Pharmaceutical  Services,  Inc.,  a
Pennsylvania  corporation,  (the "Company") and ________________  ("Executive").
Background

     The  Company  and  Executive  are  parties to a  __________________________
Agreement, dated as of ________________ (the "Change-in-Control Agreement"). The
Company desires to amend the Change-in-Control Agreement to change the method of
calculating  the amount of  severance  compensation  payable to  Executive  upon
Executive's  termination  pursuant  to a Change in  Control  (as  defined in the
Change-in-Control Agreement) and the Executive agrees to accept such amendment.

                                    Agreement

         Intending to be legally bound, the parties agree as follows:

1.   Effective  as of the date of this  Agreement,  clause ___ of  Section  ____
     (Benefits Payable Upon Termination of Employment) of the  Change-in-Control
     Agreement  is deleted  in its  entirety  and  replaced  with the  following
     provision:

   "(ii)  the  aggregate  amount  of the  annual  bonuses  paid  or  payable  to
          Executive for the three fiscal years immediately preceding a Change in
          Control divided by the number of fiscal years as to which such bonuses
          were paid or payable;"

2.        Except as otherwise  set forth in Paragraph 1 of this  Agreement,  the
          Change-in-Control  Agreement  shall remain in full force and effect in
          accordance with its terms.

3.        This  Agreement  may be  executed in one or more  counterparts,  which
          together shall constitute a single agreement.


     IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the  parties  have  executed  this  Agreement  in two
counterparts as of the date first written above.

                                          WEST PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES, INC.


_____________________________             By: _________________________________