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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. No clinical advice. Fuzzy source dates are preserved as stated.","generated_at":"2026-11-06T17:22:35.887Z","week":"2024-W25","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-W25","start":"2024-06-17","end":"2024-06-23","horizon_end":"2024-07-07","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":"3a8a38d68871071cd38d5727bb01ff8b","date":"2024-06-18","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Triamcinolone acetonide suspension for injection vials (Kenalog® 40mg/1ml and Adcortyl® 50mg/5ml)","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/073 issued 18 Jun 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-073","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-triamcinolone-acetonide-suspension-for-injection-vials-kenalog-40mg-1ml-and-adcortyl-50mg-5ml"},{"key":"55cd981bb1419360986da859e8bfe150","date":"2024-06-18","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Humalog® (insulin lispro) 100units/ml solution for injection 10ml vials","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/057 issued 18 Jun 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-057","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-humalog-insulin-lispro-100units-ml-solution-for-injection-10ml-vials-2"},{"key":"a0348cf7635b652ecf1ad64f7abb508c","date":"2024-06-19","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Flixotide® (fluticasone) 125micrograms/dose and 250micrograms/dose Evohaler®","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/074 issued 19 Jun 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-074","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-flixotide-fluticasone-125micrograms-dose-and-250micrograms-dose-evohaler"}]},{"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-2024-067","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-clomethiazole-192mg-capsules","resupply_text":"mid-June 2024"},{"key":"window:msn-2024-069:2024-06-20","date":"2024-06-20","title":"MSN/2024/069 — Medicine Supply Notification: Imiquimod (Aldara® ) 5% cream and podophyllotoxin (Warticon® ) 0.5% solution and 0.15% cream","fact":"Expected back \"mid-June 2024\", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 20 Jun 2024 (the 20th of the stated month, the end this record uses for \"mid\"; the source gives no day). 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