Article History
Received: 11 April 2016
Revised: 29 January 2017
Accepted: 14 April 2017
First Online: 28 June 2017
Competing interests
: This article presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Research for Patient Benefit Programme (Grant Reference Number PB-PG-0610-22480. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. DJB has received departmental funding support from Fresenius-Kabi for work unrelated to this submission. Some of the out of hospital costs associated with feeding and associated consumables were defrayed by Nutricia.