Introduction

This website (http://bnfc.org and http://www.bnfc.nhs.uk) is owned and controlled jointly by the British Medical Association, of BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JP, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, of 1 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7JN, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, of 50 Hallam Street, London W1W 6DE, and the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group, of 1 Union Court, Liverpool L2 4SJ (referred to in these Terms of Use as 'we', 'us' and 'the Publishers').

These Terms of Use, together with the Permissions and Licensing Policy, will govern your access to, and use of, this website. Your continued use of this website will indicate your acceptance of the latest version of the Terms of Use and Permissions and Licensing Policy current as at the time you enter the website. As the Terms of Use and Permissions and Licensing Policy may be varied from time to time, you should check to make sure you are aware of the latest version.

Acceptable use

The BNF for Children is for use by health professionals engaged in prescribing, dispensing, and administering medicines to children. It has been prepared under the guidance of the Paediatric Formulary Committee.

BNF for Children has been constructed using robust procedures for gathering, assessing and assimilating information on paediatric drug treatment. It is, however, expected that the reader will be relying on appropriate professional knowledge and expertise to interpret the contents in the context of the circumstances of the individual child. BNF for Children should be used in conjunction with other appropriate and up-to-date literature and, where necessary, supplemented by expert advice. Special care is required in managing childhood conditions with unlicensed medicines or with licensed medicines for unlicensed uses.

Responsibility for the appropriate use of medicines lies solely with the individual health professional.

This website is intended to support healthcare professionals familiar with the scope and organisation of information within the BNFC and as such assumes the level of professional training required to appropriately interpret the advice contained herein.

This website:

• supports NHS personnel who require access to a digital version of the BNFC for point-of-care decisions
• supports healthcare professionals who require access to high quality information as part of their professional development, at times when they are away from their usual source of BNFC advice
• serves as a reliable reference resource for organisations and individuals unable to afford an up to date BNFC
• demonstrates that BNFC advice can be conveyed digitally, using standard web technology, to the benefit of the healthcare professional and the patient
• provides extra material that cannot be easily accommodated in the printed BNFC

BNFC.org is not intended to support information providers (either commercial or non-commercial) in the pursuit of their activities.

Intellectual property

All intellectual property rights, including copyright, database and trade mark rights, in material contained in, or referred to on, this website (including the BNF Classification) belong either to us or our licensors and may not be used without permission except as expressly provided in the Permissions and Licensing Policy.

All the information on this website is subject to copyright unless expressly indicated otherwise.

More information

• Permissions and licensing BNFC material
• Links to and from the BNFC website

Revision date: These Terms of Use were last updated on 14 April 2008

 

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