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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. 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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":"2022-W51","start":"2022-12-19","end":"2022-12-25","horizon_end":"2023-01-08","complete":true,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-20T20:54:38.356Z","total":9,"sections":[{"id":"new_notices","heading":"New notices","note":"Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).","items":[{"key":"86f0e65ccf842c86344e1058d7dd633d","date":"2022-12-21","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Dalteparin (Fragmin® ) 10,000units/1ml solution for injection ampoule","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2022/109 issued 21 Dec 2022 (tier 3 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2022-109","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-dalteparin-fragmin-10000units-1ml-solution-for-injection-ampoule"},{"key":"a3060105083439f01e15ab56f5e653b3","date":"2022-12-21","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Sulfasalazine 250mg in 5ml oral suspension sugar free","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2022/110 issued 21 Dec 2022 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2022-110","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-sulfasalazine-250mg-in-5ml-oral-suspension-sugar-free"},{"key":"da91b3250aff5b3e151a8d4629a73427","date":"2022-12-21","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Pilocarpine hydrochloride 4% eye drops","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2022/107 issued 21 Dec 2022 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2022-107","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-pilocarpine-hydrochloride-4-eye-drops"},{"key":"f4430b078cd3d2a4d98486bf2bc58f64","date":"2022-12-21","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Fluticasone 50microgram / Salmeterol 25microgam (Combisal® ) pressurised metered dose inhaler (pMDI)","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2022/108 issued 21 Dec 2022 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2022-108","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-fluticasone-50microgram-salmeterol-25microgam-combisal-pressurised-metered-dose-inhaler-pmdi"},{"key":"2d675500aa72089cdc9b22ea5c5e211e","date":"2022-12-23","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Selegiline (Eldepryl® ) 5mg and 10mg tablets","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2022/112 issued 23 Dec 2022 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2022-112","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-selegiline-eldepryl-5mg-and-10mg-tablets"},{"key":"752f8b8269897096d13dcc3a02ceadd9","date":"2022-12-23","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Prochlorperazine (Stemetil®) 12.5mg/ml solution for injection ampoules","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2022/113 issued 23 Dec 2022 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2022-113","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-prochlorperazine-stemetil-12-5mg-ml-solution-for-injection-ampoules-2"}]},{"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":[{"key":"1a3e6d236d32b874225f5e93543514f1","date":"2022-12-21","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Dalteparin (Fragmin® ) 10,000units/1ml solution for injection ampoule","fact":"Discontinuation notified in MSN/2022/109, dated 21 Dec 2022.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2022-109","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-dalteparin-fragmin-10000units-1ml-solution-for-injection-ampoule"}]},{"id":"expected_back_windows","heading":"Expected-back windows ending this week","note":"Notices whose current stated expected-back window ends this week. 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Reaching it is an observation about the record, not about stock at your wholesaler.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2022-096","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-capimune-ciclosporin-25mg-50mg-and-100mg-capsules","resupply_text":"mid-December 2022"}]},{"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":[]},{"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 Dec 2022 to 08 Jan 2023. 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