Adrenaline Auto-injectors
Commons · Question 93921 · Tabled 24 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 1 Dec 2025
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...