{"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":"2026-11-06T17:06:49.773Z","week":"2025-W13","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":"2025-W13","start":"2025-03-24","end":"2025-03-30","horizon_end":"2025-04-13","complete":true,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-20T20:54:38.356Z","total":5,"sections":[{"id":"new_notices","heading":"New notices","note":"Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).","items":[{"key":"702fad37afa443a81a332b358473df96","date":"2025-03-25","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Megestrol (Megace®) 160mg tablets","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2025/016 issued 25 Mar 2025 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2025-016","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-megestrol-megace-160mg-tablets"},{"key":"5bc55b0b8c3d9a6088100946be6fddb1","date":"2025-03-27","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Apraclonidine (Iopidine® ) 5mg/ml (0.5%) eye drops","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2025/018 issued 27 Mar 2025 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2025-018","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-apraclonidine-iopidine-5mg-ml-0-5-eye-drops"},{"key":"75f529315ccf4ca5e4e490a2c423abff","date":"2025-03-27","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Levofloxacin 250mg and 500mg tablets","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2025/017 issued 27 Mar 2025 (no tier stated).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2025-017","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-levofloxacin-250mg-and-500mg-tablets"}]},{"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). The sources mostly give phrases like \"late July\", not days, so each item says which rule applied.","items":[]},{"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 31 Mar 2025 to 13 Apr 2025. 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":[{"key":"scot:MSAN(2025)10","date":"2025-03-26","title":"MSAN(2025)10 — Desmopressin 10microgram/dose nasal spray","fact":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 26 Mar 2025, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/scotland/2025-10","source":"https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2025-10.pdf","priority":2},{"key":"scot:MSAN(2025)11","date":"2025-03-26","title":"MSAN(2025)11 — Salbutamol (Salamol Easi-Breathe®) 100micrograms/dose breath actuated","fact":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 26 Mar 2025, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/scotland/2025-11","source":"https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2025-11.pdf","priority":2}]}],"permalink":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2025-W13","corrections_url":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/corrections"}}