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Weekly digest · ISO week 2021-W31

02 Aug 2021 to 08 Aug 2021: UK medicine supply changes

10 items dated 02 Aug 2021 to 08 Aug 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 · 0

Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).

None recorded for this week.

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 · 0

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.

None recorded for this week.

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 · 0

Protocols whose NHSBSA register end date falls this week, per the register as last checked.

None recorded for this week.

Protocols scheduled to end in the following 14 days · 0

Register end dates from 09 Aug 2021 to 22 Aug 2021. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.

None recorded for this week.

Scotland · 10

NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices issued this week — a separate source, never summed with England.

DateRecordWhat the record says
03 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)21 — Gentisone HC® (Gentamicin 0.3% w/v and Hydrocortisone acetate 1% w/v) Earsource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 03 Aug 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
03 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)22 — Locorten Vioform® (flumetasone/clioquinol) 0.02% w/v / 1% w/v ear dropssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 03 Aug 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
03 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)23 — Catapres® (clonidine) 100microgram tabletssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 03 Aug 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
03 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)24 — Nexium® (esomeprazole) 10mg gastro-resistant granules sachetssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 03 Aug 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
03 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)25 — Clexane® (enoxaparin) pre-filled syringessource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 03 Aug 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
06 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)26 — Glipizide (Minodiab®) 5mg tabletssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 06 Aug 2021, priority level 3. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
06 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)27 — Tinzaparin sodium (10,000 IU/ml) 3,500 units in 0.35 ml and 4,500 units in 0.45source document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 06 Aug 2021, priority level 3. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
06 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)28 — Tuberculosis (TB) oral agentssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 06 Aug 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
06 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)29 — Kolanticon gel® (2.5mg dicycloverine hydrochloride, 200mg aluminiumsource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 06 Aug 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
06 Aug 2021MSAN(2021)30 — Dalacin® (clindamycin) 2% vaginal creamsource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 06 Aug 2021, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.

Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2021-W31 (02 Aug 2021 to 08 Aug 2021), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2021-W31), 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.