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What is Medicines for Children?
- A trusted website with 240 open-access leaflets on children’s medicines.
- All content is written by paediatricians and pharmacists, with input from parents and carers.
- It provides advice videos and practical guides to support families to give medicines safely.
- A new mobile app is now available to aid with medication management.
- Links included to in the BNF-C and the Red Book (PCHR).
Benefits for clinicians and NHS Trusts
Download, print and share our medicines resources with your patients. All our information is safe, evidence-led and quality assured - designed to make clinicians’ lives easier
Improved efficiency
- Clearer medicines administration and discharge instructions
- Shorter consultations
- Decreased call-backs and readmissions
Family-centred care
- Accessible language
- Free of medical jargon
- Supports shared decision making with families
Collaboration
- Prevents duplication of effort by teams and across NHS Trusts
- Improved understanding for trainees and new staff
- Time and cost-savings for the NH
Quality assured
- Standardised evidence-based information
- Developed by paediatric prescribers
- Trusted, accurate and reliable information
Latest news
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Medicines for Children’s 2025 highlights
With 2025 now at an end, the Medicines for Children team would like to take a moment to look back on a few highlights from the last 12 months, and most importantly, we would like to thank the healthcare professionals and families who generously shared their time, experience and expertise over the year to create new resources for parents and carers.
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New information available on cardiac medicines
Families of children with heart conditions will now have access to clearer, more reliable information about their medicines, thanks to a new collaboration between Medicines for Children and the children's pharmacists who make up the Specialist Interest Group (SIG) for Cardiac Medicines, part of the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG).
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Help protect your child from flu this winter – advice from the RCPCH
As the colder months set in, flu season is upon us - and protecting our children has never been more important. Flu can make children very unwell and, in some cases, lead to serious complications. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has created a helpful factsheet to guide parents and carers on how to keep children safe this winter.
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Medicines for Children to be included on a new medical knowledge platform
Medicines for Children is delighted to be included on the Eolas digital platform, designed for health professionals to manage and share clinical knowledge and resources. Through this partnership, Eolas will signpost healthcare professionals to Medicines for Children, making it simpler for clinicians to share our medicines leaflets with parents and carers.
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Helping your child to swallow tablets – new resources from Kidzmed
Being able to swallow tablets is an important life skill that children need to learn. The Kidzmed programme has developed a guide to help children and young people learn to swallow tablets using six simple steps.
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Medicines for Children “highly commended” at the HSJ Independent Healthcare Providers awards 2025
The Medicines for Children team is delighted to have been ‘highly commended’ in the ‘Best Provider of Digital Healthcare Services’ category at the inaugural Health Services Journal (HSJ) Independent Healthcare Providers Awards, held in London on 20th March 2025.
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