Weekly digest · ISO week 2021-W13
29 Mar 2021 to 04 Apr 2021: UK medicine supply changes
5 items dated 29 Mar 2021 to 04 Apr 2021, each a re-expressed fact linked to its source document. This week is over. Changes are filed by the date the source gives them, so this week can still gain one if a source is captured late. Protocol end dates and expected-back windows are shown as the NHSBSA register and the notices stood when last checked, not as they stood during this week: a later extension or update can move one of them to another week or remove it. Corrections are logged on the corrections page.
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New notices · 1
Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Mar 2021 | Medicine Supply Notification: Chloral Hydrate 143.3mg in 5ml oral solution - Updatesource document ↗ | Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2021/019 issued 30 Mar 2021 (tier 2 of 4). |
Updated notices · 0
Notifications whose source post records an update dated this week.
None recorded for this week.
Discontinuations · 0
Discontinuations stated in a notice, dated by the notice or update that states them.
None recorded for this week.
Expected-back windows ending this week · 1
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.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2021 | Medicine Supply Notification: Haloperidol 5mg/5ml oral solution sugar free (Thame Laboratories) - Updatesource document ↗ | Expected back "March 2021", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 31 Mar 2021 (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. |
Protocols issued, expired or revoked · 0
Serious Shortage Protocols (UK-wide) whose issue, expiry or revocation is dated this week.
None recorded for this week.
Protocols extended · 0
Extensions are dated by the scheduled end they replaced, as the NHSBSA register and announcements record them.
None recorded for this week.
Protocol end dates this week · 1
Protocols whose NHSBSA register end date falls this week, per the register as last checked.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Apr 2021 | SSP010 Levothyroxine 12.5microgram tabletssource document ↗ | Scheduled end 01 Apr 2021 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting. |
Protocols scheduled to end in the following 14 days · 0
Register end dates from 05 Apr 2021 to 18 Apr 2021. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.
None recorded for this week.
Scotland · 2
NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices issued this week — a separate source, never summed with England.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2021 | MSAN(2021)14 — Oral Contraceptive tablets (various brands)source document ↗ | NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 31 Mar 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts. |
| 31 Mar 2021 | MSAN(2021)15 — H2-antagonists (cimetidine, famotidine and nizatidine)source document ↗ | NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 31 Mar 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts. |
Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2021-W13 (29 Mar 2021 to 04 Apr 2021), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2021-W13), by Doctor Data Ltd.” Derived facts CC BY 4.0; source documents belong to their publishers and are linked, not reproduced. A protocol's scheduled end is the NHSBSA register's date and says nothing about local stock. Not an official NHS or DHSC service; not clinical advice.