Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 93921

Adrenaline Auto-injectors

Tabled: 24 November 2025

Answered: 1 December 2025

Question

Gareth Snell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether spare AAIs can be used on someone in an anaphylactic emergency if they do not have a previously diagnosed allergy.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

While adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs) are prescription only medicines, given by intramuscular injection, regulation 238 of the Human Medicine Regulations 2012 allows anyone to administer adrenaline for the purpose of saving a life in an emergency. This i...

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