Corrinne Burns

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Correspondent

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

Regulator appoints clinical fellow to understand attainment gap within pharmacy education

As the new Scottish clinical leadership pharmacy fellow, Niketa Platt will work with the GPhC’s equality, diversity and inclusion team to gauge which factors may hinder differential attainment in pharmacy.…

Cystic fibrosis combination therapy cuts chronic medication use

Researchers reported that patients who were given Kaftrio (elexacaftor-tezacaftor-ivacaftor; Vertex) reduced their use of 4 respiratory therapies after 54 months.…

NICE threshold increase must not hit generics market, Lords told

In a letter sent to Baroness Morris, pharmacy leaders recommended a review of the role of drug tariff pricing and retained margins to lower the number of medicines supplied to the NHS at a loss.…

ADHD prescriptions rise by 5% in three months

Data from NHS Business Services Authority show that from July to September 2025, almost 300,000 patients were prescribed medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.…

Community pharmacists should be able to amend prescriptions, says RPS

In response to a government consultation on offering greater dispensing flexibilities for community pharmacists, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society noted that pharmacists in Scotland can already do this without comparative increases in prescribing costs.…

Participation in commercial clinical trials falls for fourth year in a row, finds ABPI

An Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry report showed that although the number of trial participants increased, the proportion of people recruited to commercial trials was dropping.…

Ngozi Kalu: ‘When research lacks representation, findings become biased and inequalities emerge’

As assistant director for research and evidence for the NHS Race and Health Observatory, Ngozi Kalu is at the epicentre of the organisation’s mission to end ethnic inequalities across the NHS.…

RPS invites responses to pharmacogenomics prescribing consultation

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society said that its draft pharmacogenomic resource offers reflections on how competencies taken from its ‘Competency framework for all prescribers’ apply to pharmacogenomics.…

All hospital pharmacists faced critical medicine shortage in 2024, survey finds

The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists’ 2025 shortages survey received responses from 859 hospital pharmacists across 36 countries, 21 of whom were based in the UK.…

Monthly injection for severe asthma cuts need for daily oral corticosteroids

Researchers found that half of participants were able to stop taking daily oral corticosteroids altogether by the end of a 52-week trial after taking monthly tezepelumab injections.…