BNF for Children (BNFC) is the standard UK paediatric reference for prescribing and pharmacology.

Though published in and for the United Kingdom, the vast bulk of the clinical information will apply in any country.

Starting in 2002, Prof Martin Kendall,[5][6] then chairman of the BNF Joint Formulary Committee worked to get things changed.

The UK Department of Health (now the DHSC) agreed to fund the BNFC, as it does the BNF, to ensure that NHS clinicians can have up-to-date information in their pockets.

The first edition was published in 2005, with George Rylance [7] chairing the Paediatric Formulary Committee and Dinesh Mehta as the first executive editor.