BNF Publications are pleased to announce the appointments of a Chair and Deputy Chair of the BNF for Children’s Paediatric Formulary Committee (PFC).

Dr David Tuthill has been appointed as the Chair of the BNF for Children’s PFC. David is a consultant general paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital for Wales and Llandough Hospital. His main clinical focus is children with allergic and general paediatric problems. He has been involved in work around medication and patient safety and also has expertise in quality improvement. He has been a member of the PFC since 2011. David is also a member of the Medicines Committee at the Royal College of Paedatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). He has been actively involved in development of the Medicines for Children website, a joint initiative between RCPCH, the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG) and Wellchild.

Neil Caldwell has been appointed as the Deputy Chair of the BNF for Children’s PFC. Neil is a consultant pharmacist for children’s services at Wirral University Teaching Hospital and honorary lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and has been a member of the PFC since 2011. Neil is a lead reviewer of Medicines for Children leaflets and, since 2009, he has been member of the NPPG committee; he was also part of the NICE Guideline Development Group for Antibiotics for Early Onset Neonatal Infection from 2010­–2012. Neil was awarded a Faculty Fellow of Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2014.