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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":"2024-W23","start":"2024-06-03","end":"2024-06-09","horizon_end":"2024-06-23","complete":true,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-20T20:54:38.356Z","total":6,"sections":[{"id":"new_notices","heading":"New notices","note":"Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).","items":[{"key":"093d336586e99b071756a2bfb8dcd6a4","date":"2024-06-05","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Co-trimoxazole 40mg/200mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/068 issued 05 Jun 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-068","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-co-trimoxazole-40mg-200mg-5ml-oral-suspension-sugar-free-2"},{"key":"22c283defe8c679e0c75a323195779aa","date":"2024-06-05","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Clomethiazole 192mg capsules","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/067 issued 05 Jun 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-067","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-clomethiazole-192mg-capsules"},{"key":"28204ec7c395adddf29820d41ea820d4","date":"2024-06-05","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Disopyramide (Rythmodan Retard® ) 250mg modified-release tablets and disopyramide (Rythmodan® ) 100mg capsules. 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