Corrinne Burns

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Correspondent

Corrinne Burns is Royal Pharmaceutical Society Correspondent at The Pharmaceutical Journal.

Digital skills should be a ‘core competency’ for all healthcare staff

Attendees at a Royal Pharmaceutical Society roundtable emphasised the need to equip pharmacy workers “with confidence and competence to use digital tools to ensure safe and equitable patient care”.…

Expanding community pharmacy services could save NHS almost £4bn

The National Pharmacy Association also notes that the data in its report equate to “over 100,000 years of additional healthy life per annum" for patients.…

Combination inhaler therapy cuts asthma attacks in children by almost half

Study results revealed that the annualised rate of asthma attacks was lower in participants who used a budesonide-formoterol inhaler compared with participants who used a short-acting β2-agonist inhaler.…

Cannabis could be effective for chronic lower back pain, phase III trial results suggest

Researchers reported that, during an initial double-blind treatment phase, participants who took a full-spectrum extract of cannabis experienced a significant mean pain reduction compared with the placebo.…

Jeremy Miles praises ‘incredible’ work of pharmacists and announces review of general practice pharmacy

Exclusive: The Welsh cabinet secretary for health and social care said “there is a huge role which pharmacists are playing in a range of settings, and I want to see that grow”.…

Geraldine McCaffrey appointed RPS director for Wales

The current chair of the RPS Welsh Pharmacy Board will take over from Elen Jones on 1 December 2025, who is moving onto the role of pharmacy dean at Healthcare Education and Improvement Wales.…

More than 20% of adults think UTIs can be prevented with precautionary antibiotics

A survey commissioned by the European Association of Urology also revealed that nearly 20% of UK adults believed that antibiotics are always needed for urinary tract infections.…

RPS urges patients to seek medicines information from ‘trusted source’ after Trump links paracetamol and autism

The president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society urged anyone with concerns about their medicines to speak to a pharmacist or a trusted healthcare professional.…

GPhC appoints Chris Askew as interim chief executive

The former chief executive of the Royal College of General Practitioners will take up the role on 1 October 2025.…

Draft invitations and leaflets on medication reviews launched for patients in care homes

The Health Innovation Network has launched a suite of tools designed to put patients living in care homes, their families, and carers, at the heart of decision-making on medication.…