I'm wondering about the 40 epipens too. That seems weird.
But, would anyone be questioning giving an rx for the epipens if there weren't what appears to be irregular numbers of them being prescribed?
Is there anything related to self-carrying..... either rules against from schools & them requiring more auto-injectors as a result per student that would otherwise not need so many if they could self carry?
If you have policies from schools that require extra epipens provided per child, for the office and classroom, combined with prohibiting self-carrying, and the need for people to also have them at home.... typically 2... then, when you regularly might just fill a prescription for 2 for someone who self carries... you end up needing 6 or more depending on how many places you have to have epipens supplied for.
When DS1 was in elementary, we provided medical kits for him, every year, for classroom, office, cafeteria.... in addition to what we had for our home and in my purse/backpack.
That is a lot of extra epipens that turns into much fewer when a kid self carries and doesn't have to have them stowed in multiple places at school.
What is the policy in the UK and do you think the gripe over paying for multiple epipens will weigh in on how schools create policies for them?