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Aspirin & penicillin

It seems rather odd to me to have a sub-topic covering just aspirin and penicillin as they would appear to have little in common – even the ‘Understandings’ and ‘Applications and skills’ in the Guide list them under different headings. In previous versions of the programme, aspirin, together with paracetamol and ibuprofen, formed a sub-topic on mild analgesics and penicillin was part of a separate sub-topic on...

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