Corrinne Burns

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Correspondent

corrinne.burns@rpharms.com

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

Over-the-counter medicines are being purchased by children as young as 13 years, reveals survey

Overall, more than half of the survey respondents had used over-the-counter medicines in a six-month period.…

Welsh community pharmacies to pilot rapid diagnostic testing for bacterial infections

The Welsh government said the two-year pilot will use upgraded and repurposed diagnostic equipment originally purchased during the COVID-19 pandemic to identify multiple bacterial infections in community settings.…

Childhood vaccination campaign offers ‘trusted information’ amid measles outbreaks

The highest number of confirmed measles cases during January were in the London borough of Enfield, with 34 cases.…

Hospital pharmacists awarded 3.3% pay rise for 2026/2027

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association said the “extremely disappointing” pay award is below the latest annual inflation rates and represents a real-terms pay cut to NHS pharmacists’ salaries.…

Pharmacy owners in Wales having to remortgage homes, NPA survey finds

The National Pharmacy Association survey of pharmacy owners in Wales also found that none of the respondents said they had sufficient funding to deliver core services under their NHS Wales contract.…

UKPPLAB sets out proposals for wider royal college membership

The proposals for pharmacy technicians and pharmacists from Northern Ireland to be eligible for future Royal College of Pharmacy membership would be subject to a special resolution vote.…

Prenatal aspirin at earliest opportunity cuts severe pre-eclampsia risk, study finds

The study of more than 18,000 pregnant women showed that there was no increase in maternal haemorrhage or placental abruption among those who took aspirin.…

‘From the bench to the patient’: the relaunch of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology

Here, the latest editors of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, a peer-reviewed open access research journal from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Oxford University Press, explain its updated research focus and how it can make a difference to patients.…

Hospitals should identify and prescribe time-critical medicines within 24 hours of emergency admission

NHS England standards also state that support services, including pharmacy, should be available daily for acute receiving areas during extended-day working hours.…

Boots launches lung cancer early awareness scheme

Signs will be placed around over-the-counter cold and flu management products advising patients to speak to a Macmillan-trained pharmacist if they have symptoms suggestive of lung cancer.…