Adrenaline Auto-injectors
(asked on 21st February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many adrenaline auto-Injector (AAI) prescriptions were issued in each of the last 10 years.
The Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) data release gives items and quantities of each medicine dispensed in the community in England. The following table shows the total number of National Health Service prescription items dispensed in the community in England, regardless of where prescribed, for adrenaline auto-injectors, from 2015 to 2024, and in total:
Year | Total prescription items |
2015 | 303,810 |
2016 | 324,377 |
2017 | 338,668 |
2018 | 351,931 |
2019 | 381,754 |
2020 | 375,240 |
2021 | 343,729 |
2022 | 403,046 |
2023 | 407,070 |
2024 | 429,542 |
Total | 3,659,167 |
Source: the NHS Business Services Authority’s Open Data Portal, PCA data
Note: the term ‘items’ refers to the number of times a product appears on a prescription form, and not the quantity prescribed.
The data does not include data on medicines used in secondary care, prisons, or those issued by a private prescriber.