Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 22697

Allergies: Schools

Tabled: 8 January 2025
Answered: 15 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Alicia Kearns

ConservativeRutland and Stamford

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing the new Neffy treatment for severe allergic reactions to schools when available on the NHS.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
Needle-free epinephrine nasal spray is not currently licensed for use in the United Kingdom. Consideration as to whether this could be used in schools would have to be taken once the medicine receives a marketing authorisation. Since October 2017, the Hum...

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