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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Ella Pickover

Children as young as four could be offered tablets as part of NHS cost-cutting drive

The NHS could save tens of thousands of pounds per patient each year by prescribing tablets instead of liquid medicine to children with a particular medical condition, experts have revealed.

Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) found that patients as young as seven were not only able to successfully transition to pills but often expressed a clear preference for them over the taste of their liquid medicine.

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