Patients have a right to expect care that meets their needs and is convenient to access. These rights are protected under the NHS Constitution in England; however, in my trust’s experience, this is not always the case when it comes to children and their medicines 1 . I am chief pharmacist at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Trust and we have one of the highest volumes of paediatric outpatient contacts in the country, with 242,619 virtual and face-to-face appointments from April 2020 to March 2021, according to hospital episode statistics data. Some 24 of those contacts resulted in a medicine being prescribed and dispensed by the outpatient pharmacy at the children’s site (data on file).
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