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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":"2023-W35","start":"2023-08-28","end":"2023-09-03","horizon_end":"2023-09-17","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":[]},{"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. 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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-2023-055","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-ethinylestradiol-20microgram-drospirenone-3mg-eloine-tablets","resupply_text":"late-August 2023"},{"key":"window:msn-2023-076:2023-08-31","date":"2023-08-31","title":"MSN/2023/076 — Medicine Supply Notification: Disulfiram 200mg tablets","fact":"Expected back \"late August 2023\", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 31 Aug 2023 (the last day of the stated month; the source gives no day). 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