Rashed AN, Whittlesea C, Forbes B, et al. The feasibility of using dose-banded syringes to improve the safety and availability of patient-controlled opioid analgesic infusions in children (Eur J Hosp Pharm 2014;21:306–308). This paper should have been published in this Paediatrics themed issue. Unfortunately, during the revision process our submissions system did not register it as a paper for the themed issue and as a result it was published early, in October's issue. We would like to apologise to the authors for this oversight.