UK medicines supply · live
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.
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 — Creon's has moved six 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 more than ten 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
- 07 Sep 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Ramipril 1.25mg, 2.5mg, 5mg and 10mg capsules — Expected backMSN/2026/043
- 07 Sep 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Ramipril 1.25mg, 2.5mg, 5mg and 10mg capsules — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/043
- 01 Sep 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Methylprednisolone (Medrone®) 100mg tablets — Expected backMSN/2026/041
- 01 Sep 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Methylprednisolone (Medrone®) 100mg tablets — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/041
- 01 Sep 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Edoxaban (Lixiana®) 15mg tablets — Expected backMSN/2026/042
- 01 Sep 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Edoxaban (Lixiana®) 15mg tablets — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/042
- 26 Aug 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Venlafaxine 75mg immediate-release tablets — Expected backMSN/2026/040
- 26 Aug 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Venlafaxine 75mg immediate-release tablets — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/040
- 25 Aug 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Moviprep® and Plenvu® oral powder sachets — Expected backMSN/2026/037
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