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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. 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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":"2026-W05","start":"2026-01-26","end":"2026-02-01","horizon_end":"2026-02-15","complete":true,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-20T20:54:38.356Z","total":9,"sections":[{"id":"new_notices","heading":"New notices","note":"Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).","items":[{"key":"d09388685c19d814f80bb1955cff547b","date":"2026-01-28","title":"Medicine Supply Notification: Oxybutynin (Kentera® ) 3.9mg/24hours transdermal patches","fact":"Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2026/004 issued 28 Jan 2026 (tier 2 of 4).","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/msn-2026-004","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-oxybutynin-kentera-3-9mg-24hours-transdermal-patches"},{"key":"9735487ee128e42ecf29b9b1a0bf626f","date":"2026-01-29","title":"National Patient Safety Alert: Class 1 Medicines Recall Notification: Recall of Quetiapine Oral Suspension (unlicensed medicine), manufactured by Eaststone Limited","fact":"National Patient Safety Alert NatPSA/2026/002/MHRA issued 29 Jan 2026.","page":"https://shortagesignal.co.uk/notice/natpsa-2026-002-mhra","source":"https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-class-1-medicines-recall-notification-recall-of-quetiapine-oral-suspension-unlicensed-medicine-manufactured-by-eaststone-limited"}]},{"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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