Giving children tablets instead of liquid medicine could cut NHS costs – experts

Jess Manktelow was one of the patients who took part in a Gosh project to see whether children could successfully switch to pills instead of liquid medicine (handout/PA) -

Giving children with a certain medical condition tablets instead of liquid medicine could save the NHS tens of thousands of pounds per patient each year, experts have said.

Researchers found patients as young as seven were successfully able to switch to pills, and often preferred them to the taste of liquid medicine.