Weekly digest · ISO week 2022-W20
16 May 2022 to 22 May 2022: UK medicine supply changes
13 items dated 16 May 2022 to 22 May 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2022 | Medicine Supply Notification: Insulin isophane human (Insuman Basal SoloStar® ) 100 IU/ml suspension for injection in a pre-filled pensource document ↗ | Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2022/046 issued 18 May 2022 (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 · 2
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2022 | MSN/2022/032 — Medicine Supply Notification: Clomifene 50mg tabletssource document ↗ | Expected back "mid-May 2022", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 20 May 2022 (the 20th of the stated month, the end this record uses for "mid"; the source gives no day). Reaching it is an observation about the record, not about stock at your wholesaler. |
| 20 May 2022 | MSN/2022/043 — Medicine Supply Notification: Glycerol 1g and 4g suppositoriessource document ↗ | Expected back "mid-May 2022", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 20 May 2022 (the 20th of the stated month, the end this record uses for "mid"; the source gives no day). Reaching it is an observation about the record, not about stock at your wholesaler. |
Protocols issued, expired or revoked · 10
Serious Shortage Protocols (UK-wide) whose issue, expiry or revocation is dated this week.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2022 | SSP028 Lenzetto | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP028 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 19 Aug 2022. |
| 19 May 2022 | SSP023 Oestrogel | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP023 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 19 Aug 2022. |
| 19 May 2022 | SSP022 Oestrogel | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP022 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 19 Aug 2022. |
| 19 May 2022 | SSP026 Lenzetto | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP026 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 19 Aug 2022. |
| 19 May 2022 | SSP031 Sandrena | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP031 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 19 Aug 2022. |
| 19 May 2022 | SSP024 Ovestin cream | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP024 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 28 Oct 2022. |
| 19 May 2022 | SSP029 Sandrena | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP029 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 19 Aug 2022. |
| 19 May 2022 | SSP025 Ovestin | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP025 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 28 Oct 2022. |
| 19 May 2022 | SSP027 Lenzetto | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP027 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 19 Aug 2022. |
| 19 May 2022 | SSP030 Sandrena | Serious Shortage Protocol SSP030 issued, valid from 19 May 2022, first scheduled to end 19 Aug 2022. |
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 23 May 2022 to 05 Jun 2022. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.
None recorded for this week.
Scotland · 0
NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices issued this week — a separate source, never summed with England.
None recorded for this week.
Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2022-W20 (16 May 2022 to 22 May 2022), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2022-W20), 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.