{"meta":{"service":"ShortageSignal API v1","schema_version":"1.2","docs":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/api","changelog":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/api/changelog","source_note":"Re-expressed facts derived from published sources (DHSC notifications as relayed publicly; NHSBSA SSP register; NHS Scotland MSANs on a separate surface). Records carry source_url where the source publishes a document for that event; SSP register entries derived from the register itself have none.","license":"ShortageSignal's derived facts and statistics: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). NHSBSA and gov.uk material is reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. CPE-derived items are re-expressed facts linking to the source post, never verbatim editorial.","attribution":"ShortageSignal (Doctor Data Ltd), https://shortagesignal.co.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.","coverage_note":"England-first: DHSC Medicine Supply Notifications as relayed publicly by Community Pharmacy England (the record is a floor, not the complete set of posts; see /methodology), the NHSBSA Serious Shortage Protocol register, and NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices on a separate surface that is never added to England counts. Sources are checked twice daily, not continuously. Absence of a record is never availability. Records recovered from the Internet Archive are labelled route 'internet_archive' and dated by the Archive's capture. as_of= returns only what had been captured by that date, so it is only as complete as capture was then; events whose recorded_at is only an upper bound (recorded_at_precision 'no_later_than': rows written before v1.1, whose write time was never stored) are left out of any as_of date before that bound.","disclaimer":"Not an official NHS or DHSC service. No clinical advice. Fuzzy source dates are preserved as stated.","generated_at":"2026-11-08T07:21:49.662Z","week":"2020-W43","freshness":"Sources are checked twice daily by scheduled jobs; digest.last_checked_at is the latest check. Not live.","dating":"Change events are filed by the date the source gives them, so a week can gain items when a source is captured late. Protocol end dates and expected-back windows are shown as the register and notices stood when last checked, not as they stood during that week, so a later extension or update can move one to another week or remove it."},"digest":{"week":"2020-W43","start":"2020-10-19","end":"2020-10-25","horizon_end":"2020-11-08","complete":true,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-20T20:54:38.356Z","total":7,"sections":[{"id":"new_notices","heading":"New notices","note":"Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).","items":[]},{"id":"updated_notices","heading":"Updated notices","note":"Notifications whose source post records an update dated this week.","items":[]},{"id":"discontinuations","heading":"Discontinuations","note":"Discontinuations stated in a notice, dated by the notice or update that states them.","items":[]},{"id":"expected_back_windows","heading":"Expected-back windows ending this week","note":"Notices whose current stated expected-back window ends this week. The end is derived from the phrase: the stated day where the source gave one; six days after a stated week-commencing day; otherwise the 10th for \"early\", the 20th for \"mid\" and the last day of the month for \"late\" or a bare month (six days after it for a \"week commencing\" phrase with no readable day). The sources mostly give phrases like \"late July\", not days, so each item says which rule applied.","items":[]},{"id":"protocols_issued","heading":"Protocols issued, expired or revoked","note":"Serious Shortage Protocols (UK-wide) whose issue, expiry or revocation is dated this week.","items":[{"key":"30b302d65b0beac7d8478d109c0c1a29","date":"2020-10-20","title":"SSP008 Salazopyrin EN-Tabs 500mg","fact":"Serious Shortage Protocol SSP008 issued, valid from 20 Oct 2020, first scheduled to end 04 Dec 2020.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/ssp/8","source":null},{"key":"cd2bdb1ff38300903ffd0d67ea4dcf12","date":"2020-10-20","title":"SSP007 Fluoxetine 30mg capsules","fact":"Serious Shortage Protocol SSP007 issued, valid from 20 Oct 2020, first scheduled to end 22 Dec 2020.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/ssp/7","source":null}]},{"id":"protocols_extended","heading":"Protocols extended","note":"Extensions are dated by the scheduled end they replaced, as the NHSBSA register and announcements record them.","items":[]},{"id":"protocols_ending_this_week","heading":"Protocol end dates this week","note":"Protocols whose NHSBSA register end date falls this week, per the register as last checked.","items":[]},{"id":"protocols_ending_next_14_days","heading":"Protocols scheduled to end in the following 14 days","note":"Register end dates from 26 Oct 2020 to 08 Nov 2020. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.","items":[]},{"id":"scotland","heading":"Scotland","note":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices issued this week — a separate source, never summed with England.","items":[{"key":"scot:MSAN(2020)101","date":"2020-10-21","title":"MSAN(2020)101 — DDAVP® (Desmopressin) 0.01% w/v (100 micrograms/ml) intranasal solution","fact":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 21 Oct 2020, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/scotland/2020-101","source":"https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2020-101.pdf","priority":2},{"key":"scot:MSAN(2020)102","date":"2020-10-21","title":"MSAN(2020)102 — Dulcolax® (bisacodyl) 5mg suppositories","fact":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 21 Oct 2020, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/scotland/2020-102","source":"https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2020-102.pdf","priority":2},{"key":"scot:MSAN(2020)103","date":"2020-10-23","title":"MSAN(2020)103 — Ferrous Fumarate 322mg/Folic Acid 350microgram (Pregaday®) tablets","fact":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 23 Oct 2020, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/scotland/2020-103","source":"https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2020-103.pdf","priority":2},{"key":"scot:MSAN(2020)104","date":"2020-10-23","title":"MSAN(2020)104 — Fluoxetine 30mg capsules (Advanz)","fact":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 23 Oct 2020, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/scotland/2020-104","source":"https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2020-104.pdf","priority":2},{"key":"scot:MSAN(2020)105","date":"2020-10-23","title":"MSAN(2020)105 — Salazopyrin En-Tabs® (sulfasalazine) 500mg tablets","fact":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 23 Oct 2020, priority level 1. Scotland only — never added to England counts.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/scotland/2020-105","source":"https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2020-105.pdf","priority":1}]}],"permalink":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2020-W43","corrections_url":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/corrections"}}