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Weekly digest · ISO week 2023-W07

13 Feb 2023 to 19 Feb 2023: UK medicine supply changes

9 items dated 13 Feb 2023 to 19 Feb 2023, 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 · 5

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

DateRecordWhat the record says
15 Feb 2023Medicine Supply Notification: Meptazinol (Meptid® ) 200mg film-coated tabletssource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2023/016 issued 15 Feb 2023 (tier 2 of 4).
15 Feb 2023Medicine Supply Notification: Promethazine hydrochloride (Phenergan® elixir) 5mg/5ml oral solution sugar freesource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2023/015 issued 15 Feb 2023 (tier 2 of 4).
15 Feb 2023Medicine Supply Notification: Medroxyprogesterone (Provera® ) 2.5mg tabletssource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2023/016 issued 15 Feb 2023 (tier 3 of 4).
15 Feb 2023Medicine Supply Notification: Lamotrigine 5mg dispersible tabletssource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2023/017 issued 15 Feb 2023 (tier 2 of 4).
16 Feb 2023Medicine Supply Notification: Paracetamol 120mg and 240mg suppositories - Updatedsource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2023/020 issued 16 Feb 2023 (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.

DateRecordWhat the record says
15 Feb 2023MSN/2023/011 — Medicine Supply Notification: Hyoscine hydrobromide (Kwells Kids®)150mcg and (Kwells®) 300mcg tabletssource document ↗Expected back "15th February 2023", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 15 Feb 2023 (the day the source stated). Reaching it is an observation about the record, not about stock at your wholesaler.
19 Feb 2023MSN/2023/009 — Medicine Supply Notification: Estradiol (Estradot ® ) 25micrograms/24hours, 50micrograms/24hours and 100micrograms/24hours patchessource document ↗Expected back "w/c 13th February 2023", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 19 Feb 2023 (six days after the week-commencing day the source stated). Reaching it is an observation about the record, not about stock at your wholesaler.

Protocols issued, expired or revoked · 1

Serious Shortage Protocols (UK-wide) whose issue, expiry or revocation is dated this week.

DateRecordWhat the record says
16 Feb 2023SSP050 Paracetamol 120mg suppositoriesSerious Shortage Protocol SSP050 issued, valid from 16 Feb 2023, first scheduled to end 05 May 2023.

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 · 1

Register end dates from 20 Feb 2023 to 05 Mar 2023. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.

DateRecordWhat the record says
24 Feb 2023SSP048 Estradot 50mcg patchessource document ↗Scheduled end 24 Feb 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.

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 2023-W07 (13 Feb 2023 to 19 Feb 2023), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2023-W07), 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.