Open consultation: Allowing schools to hold spare adrenaline auto-injectors

Following the recommendation of the Commission on Human Medicines, the government is proposingto amend the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 to enable schools to purchase without prescription and hold spare AAIs for use in emergencies.This would enable schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to hold spare AAIs. Currently, AAIs are prescription only medicines, which means that schools cannot keep spares for use in emergencies. No school would be required to hold spare AAIs as a re