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Nobody kept the record. We do.

UK medicine shortages are the most severe on record — yet the official notices describing them are scattered across an NHS-login-gated tool, a trade body's rolling news feed, and PDF registers. When a shortage resolves, its notice effectively disappears. That makes the simplest questions unanswerable: how long do shortages like this usually last? How many times has this product gone short? Did the expected date hold?

ShortageSignal exists to answer those questions. We archive every notice as it appears, keep the originals forever, and publish the history as per-medicine status timelines — with the slipped dates shown as slipped, and every event linked to its source.

It is free to use. It is built by Doctor Data Ltd — Dr Mustafa Ghafouri, a medical doctor and former MHRA Lead Data Architect — on the same principles as Hospital Waits: open data, named authorship, per-statistic provenance, and no pretence of official status.

Contact: via the details on the Doctor Data Ltd Companies House record, or LinkedIn. If you spot an error, we want to know — corrections are logged publicly.