Corrinne Burns

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Correspondent

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

Pharmacists in primary care should be ‘enabled to prioritise’ structured medication reviews, says RPS

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society policy statement says primary care networks must recognise that they are accountable for delivering structured medication reviews.…

Brendon Jiang elected as treasurer of the RPS

He says it is “imperative to strategically invest in our mission to put pharmacy at the forefront of healthcare”.…

Community pharmacies report prescription delays caused by global IT outage

A defect found in a content update has impacted servers worldwide, including electronic patient record systems and software used in community pharmacies across the UK.…

Jonathan Burton: ‘Our members need to be able to trust us to represent their interests’

From more support for independent prescribers to consultant community pharmacists, the newly appointed chair of the RPS’s Scottish Pharmacy Board shares his vision for pharmacy while in post.…

Prescriptions for cannabis-based medicines double in a year, CQC report says

According to the Care Quality Commission's report, the number of cannabis-based products for medicinal use prescribed on the NHS was so small that reporting details "could potentially breach patient confidentiality”.…

National pharmacy board meetings: 19 June 2024

An overview of the latest open meeting of the national pharmacy boards.…

Scottish government publishes prescribing guidance aiming to save millions of pounds

The Scottish government's draft guidance sets out a list of 17 products that are of “low clinical value” and 11 products that are of “limited clinical value”.…

Over-the-counter nasal sprays reduce symptom duration in at-risk patients, study results suggest

Antibiotic use was also reduced in all intervention groups.…

RPS asks for views on facilitated self-selection of P medicines

The Society says it wants to hear evidence of the benefits and harms of a facilitated self-selection model for Pharmacy medicines.…

Stephen Kinnock appointed as pharmacy minister

Kinnock said his team would be “working relentlessly to address challenges and seize opportunities for change across the portfolio”.…