Allergy safety in schools: Guidance on school requests for adrenaline auto-injectors

Are you receiving requests to supply adrenaline auto-injectors to schools?

New guidance published by the Department of Education advises schools to keep ‘spare’ adrenaline auto-injectors for emergency use. You may start to see an increase in requests to supply these.

We have produced the below guidance on what this means for Community Pharmacies and how to respond:

Allergy safety in schools: Guidance for Community Pharmacies – Aug 2026

Allergy safety in schools: One page flow chart for CP – Aug 2026