{"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":"2026-11-06T17:15:08.000Z","week":"2025-W31","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-W31","start":"2025-07-28","end":"2025-08-03","horizon_end":"2025-08-17","complete":true,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-20T20:54:38.356Z","total":8,"sections":[{"id":"new_notices","heading":"New notices","note":"Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).","items":[{"key":"0528f8babb59d3872df768f115e2e023","date":"2025-07-29","title":"National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage of Antimicrobial Agents Used in Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment","fact":"National Patient Safety Alert NatPSA/2025/004/MVA issued 29 Jul 2025.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/natpsa-2025-004-mva","source":"http://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-"},{"key":"27ac20b73bb3c514471e4ef77f177d8a","date":"2025-07-29","title":"National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage of Antimicrobial Agents Used in Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment","fact":"National Patient Safety Alert MSN/2025/058 issued 29 Jul 2025.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2025-058","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-of-antimicrobial-agents-used-in-tuberculosis-tb-treatment"}]},{"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":[{"key":"window:msn-2025-040:2025-07-31","date":"2025-07-31","title":"MSN/2025/040 — Medicine Supply Notification: Betamethasone 500microgram soluble tablets sugar free","fact":"Expected back \"late July 2025\", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 31 Jul 2025 (the last day of the stated month; 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-2025-040","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-betamethasone-500microgram-soluble-tablets-sugar-free","resupply_text":"late July 2025"},{"key":"window:natpsa-2025-003-dhsc:2025-07-31","date":"2025-07-31","title":"NatPSA/2025/003/DHSC — National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage Of Bumetanide 1mg Tablets - Updated","fact":"Expected back \"late July 2025\", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 31 Jul 2025 (the last day of the stated month; 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/natpsa-2025-003-dhsc","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-of-bumetanide-1mg-tablets","resupply_text":"late July 2025"}]},{"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":[{"key":"ssp-end:83:2025-08-01","date":"2025-08-01","title":"SSP083 Venlafaxine 37.5mg MR tabs","fact":"Scheduled end 01 Aug 2025 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/ssp/83","source":"https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pharmacies-gp-practices-and-appliance-contractors/serious-shortage-protocols-ssps#SSP083%20Venlafaxine%2037.5mg%20MR%20tabs%2023062025%20SIGNED%20%28002%29.pdf","ssp_number":83,"medicine_label":"Venlafaxine 37.5mg MR tabs"}]},{"id":"protocols_ending_next_14_days","heading":"Protocols scheduled to end in the following 14 days","note":"Register end dates from 04 Aug 2025 to 17 Aug 2025. 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Scotland only — never added to England counts.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/scotland/2025-38","source":"https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2025-38.pdf","priority":2},{"key":"scot:MSAN(2025)39","date":"2025-07-28","title":"MSAN(2025)39 — Isosorbide mononitrate 10mg tablets (immediate-release)","fact":"NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 28 Jul 2025, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/scotland/2025-39","source":"https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2025-39.pdf","priority":2}]}],"permalink":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2025-W31","corrections_url":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/corrections"}}