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ShortageSignal

UK medicines supply · checked twice daily

The UK medicine shortage record.
Kept, dated, one timeline.

Shortage notices are scattered across gated tools and rolling news posts — and they vanish once resolved. ShortageSignal keeps the record: Medicine Supply Notifications, Serious Shortage Protocols and discontinuations, as status timelines, each event dated and linked to the source it came from.

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Latest recorded changesupdated 19 Oct 2026
Medicine Supply Notification: Cilostazol 50mg and 100mg tablets
Expected back
MSN/2026/050
Medicine Supply Notification: Cilostazol 50mg and 100mg tablets
Supply notification issued
MSN/2026/050
National Patient Safety Alert: StatStrip® beta-ketone testing strips (Nova Biomedical)
Product discontinued
NatPSA/2026/007/NSDR
National Patient Safety Alert: StatStrip® beta-ketone testing strips (Nova Biomedical)
National Patient Safety Alert issued
NatPSA/2026/007/NSDR
Tracked notices
371
in the current archive
SSPs in force
7
of a register back to 2019
Changes this month
0
issues, updates & extensions
Last checked
20 Oct 2026
last source change 19 Oct 2026

Every number here is derived from the record, not estimated · the UK Shortage Index · state of shortages · how it works

Why it exists

The questions nobody could answer, answered.

How long will it last?

Protocol end-dates slip constantly — the Creon® 10000 gastro-resistant capsules protocol (SSP060) has had its expiry moved 8 times. We keep every revision, so you see the real track record, not today's promise.

Has this happened before?

Recurrence and duration per medicine, reaching back to 2021 — Estradiol has been notified short 13 times. Browse every medicine, ranked by how often it goes short →

Where's the proof?

Events carry a link to the source they came from — the MSN post, the NHSBSA protocol — so what you read here is one click from being verified.

Latest changes

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