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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":"2026-11-06T17:06:45.197Z","week":"2024-W34","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-W34","start":"2024-08-19","end":"2024-08-25","horizon_end":"2024-09-08","complete":true,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-20T20:54:38.356Z","total":7,"sections":[{"id":"new_notices","heading":"New notices","note":"Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).","items":[{"key":"130c8c39cb74db6cce3cb7f9a2d99309","date":"2024-08-22","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Norethisterone (Noriday® ) 350microgram tablets","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/088 issued 22 Aug 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-088","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-norethisterone-noriday-350microgram-tablets-2"},{"key":"a58af9f9ad93f133d3e04c8a5bdd051f","date":"2024-08-22","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Naltrexone 50mg tablets","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/087 issued 22 Aug 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-087","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-naltrexone-50mg-tablets"},{"key":"bcd186bccc937b7ea01a66f72437ad8d","date":"2024-08-22","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Methylphenidate prolonged-release tablets","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/086 issued 22 Aug 2024 (no tier stated).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-086","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-methylphenidate-prolonged-release-tablets"},{"key":"91c7c80e4a46b462f4667e788a6df3e2","date":"2024-08-23","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Creon® Micro Pancreatin 60.12mg gastro-resistant granules","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/089 issued 23 Aug 2024 (no tier stated).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-089","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-creon-micro-pancreatin-60-12mg-gastro-resistant-granules"}]},{"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-2024-054","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-of-pancreatic-enzyme-replacement-therapy-pert","resupply_text":"mid-August 2024"},{"key":"window:msn-2024-077:2024-08-20","date":"2024-08-20","title":"MSN/2024/077 — Medicine Supply Notification: Carbamazepine 100mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free (Accord)","fact":"Expected back \"mid-August 2024\", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 20 Aug 2024 (the 20th of the stated month, the end this record uses for \"mid\"; the source gives no day). Reaching it is an observation about the record, not about stock at your wholesaler.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-077","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-carbamazepine-100mg-5ml-oral-suspension-sugar-free-accord","resupply_text":"mid-August 2024"}]},{"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 Aug 2024 to 08 Sep 2024. 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