All respondents—problems with medicines*
| Problem | Children with chronic illness (n=15) | Parents/carers of children with chronic illness (n=23) | Head teachers (n=40) | School nurses (n=11) | Healthcare professionals (n=59) |
| Child couldn’t get a dose when they needed it | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 24 |
| Child missed a dose | 5 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 17 |
| Child given wrong dose | 0 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Child given wrong medicine | 1 | 2 | |||
| Medicine was lost | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Medicine supply ran out | 5 | 4 | 25 | 3 | 9 |
| Medicine was not stored correctly | 3 | 1 | 10 | ||
| Side effects stopped child joining in | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
| School not made aware of changes and carried on with old medicine/dose | 6 | ||||
| Other | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
*The survey for parents/carers of children receiving intermittent treatment did not include these questions.