{"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":"2026-11-06T17:06:37.336Z","week":"2024-W22","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":"2024-W22","start":"2024-05-27","end":"2024-06-02","horizon_end":"2024-06-16","complete":true,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-20T20:54:38.356Z","total":10,"sections":[{"id":"new_notices","heading":"New notices","note":"Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).","items":[{"key":"6f862545fb55981e56ae91336228c53c","date":"2024-05-29","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Memantine (Valios® ) 10mg and 20mg orodispersible tablets sugar free","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/063 issued 29 May 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-063","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-memantine-valios-10mg-and-20mg-orodispersible-tablets-sugar-free"},{"key":"b34ea555543e75112b2cd157fdfafed5","date":"2024-05-29","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Somatropin (NutropinAq® ) 10mg/2ml solution for injection cartridges Somatropin (Humatrope® ) 6mg, 12mg and 24mg powder and solvent for solution for injection cartridges - Updated","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/064 issued 29 May 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-064","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-somatropin-nutropinaq-10mg-2ml-solution-for-injection-cartridges-somatropin-humatrope-6mg-12mg-and-24mg-powder-and-solvent-for-solution-for-injection-c"}]},{"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":"623714c6a23f7af70a5069917ee48f80","date":"2024-05-29","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Somatropin (NutropinAq® ) 10mg/2ml solution for injection cartridges Somatropin (Humatrope® ) 6mg, 12mg and 24mg powder and solvent for solution for injection cartridges - Updated","fact":"Discontinuation notified in MSN/2024/064, dated 29 May 2024.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-064","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-somatropin-nutropinaq-10mg-2ml-solution-for-injection-cartridges-somatropin-humatrope-6mg-12mg-and-24mg-powder-and-solvent-for-solution-for-injection-c"}]},{"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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