The end of daily medication is on the horizon after scientists invented a pill which steadily releases drugs over two weeks.

Experts are hopeful it could help people stick to inconvenient drugs regimes, particularly the elderly or those with dementia or mental health problems who struggle to remember to take their medicine.

The capsule looks like a pill but when swallowed it opens up into a star shape so that it does not pass through the stomach.

It then gradually releases the drug into the body over a fortnight before breaking up and passing out of the body.