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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":"2026-11-06T18:06:41.647Z","week":"2024-W51","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-W51","start":"2024-12-16","end":"2024-12-22","horizon_end":"2025-01-05","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":"841231e4b144dd58e1b6bb016022dc9f","date":"2024-12-19","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Estradiol (Estradot®) transdermal patches - Updated","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification issued 19 Dec 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-estradiol-estradot-50micrograms-24-hours-75micrograms-24-hours-and-100micrograms-24-hours-transdermal-patches","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-estradiol-estradot-50micrograms-24-hours-75micrograms-24-hours-and-100micrograms-24-hours-transdermal-patches"},{"key":"9538373c274f0c1331b8f2dad556f2ed","date":"2024-12-19","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Isosorbide mononitrate 10mg, 20mg and 40mg tablets (immediate-release)","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/114 issued 19 Dec 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-114","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-isosorbide-mononitrate-10mg-20mg-and-40mg-tablets-immediate-release"},{"key":"d0387f3bb11c0a9775ec183948037dcc","date":"2024-12-19","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Prednisolone 20mg/100ml rectal solution","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/116 issued 19 Dec 2024 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2024-116","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-prednisolone-20mg-100ml-rectal-solution"}]},{"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. The end is derived from the phrase: the stated day where the source gave one; six days after a stated week-commencing day; otherwise the 10th for \"early\", the 20th for \"mid\" and the last day of the month for \"late\" or a bare month (six days after it for a \"week commencing\" phrase with no readable day). 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A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.","items":[]},{"id":"scotland","heading":"Scotland","note":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices issued this week — a separate source, never summed with England.","items":[]}],"permalink":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2024-W51","corrections_url":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/corrections"}}