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Weekly digest · ISO week 2023-W17

24 Apr 2023 to 30 Apr 2023: UK medicine supply changes

18 items dated 24 Apr 2023 to 30 Apr 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 · 1

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

DateRecordWhat the record says
24 Apr 2023Medicine Supply Notification: Oxybutynin 5mg modified-release tabletssource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2023/048 issued 24 Apr 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
30 Apr 2023MSN/2022/112 — Medicine Supply Notification: Selegiline (Eldepryl® ) 5mg and 10mg tabletssource document ↗Expected back "April 2023", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 30 Apr 2023 (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.
30 Apr 2023MSN/2023/032 — Medicine Supply Notification: Primidone (Aspire Pharma) 50mg tabletssource document ↗Expected back "w/c 24th April 2023", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 30 Apr 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 · 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 · 15

Register end dates from 01 May 2023 to 14 May 2023. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.

DateRecordWhat the record says
05 May 2023SSP055 Estradot 75mcg patchessource document ↗Scheduled end 05 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP029 Sandrenasource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP030 Sandrenasource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP031 Sandrenasource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP032 Atorvastatin 10mg chewable tabssource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP040 Phenoxymethylpenicillin 125mg-5ml oral solution sugar freesource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP041 Phenoxymethylpenicillin 250mg-5ml oral solution sugar freesource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP042 Phenoxymethylpenicillin 250mg-5ml oral solutionsource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP043 Phenoxymethylpenicillin 125mg/5ml oral solutionsource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP044 Phenoxymethylpenicillin 125mg/5ml oral solution sugar freesource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP045 Phenoxymethylpenicillin 250mg/5ml oral solutionsource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP046 Phenoxymethylpenicillin 250mg/5ml oral solution sugar freesource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP047 Penicillin 250mg tabssource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP050 Paracetamol 120mg suppositoriessource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 2023 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
12 May 2023SSP051 Paracetamol 240mg suppositoriessource document ↗Scheduled end 12 May 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-W17 (24 Apr 2023 to 30 Apr 2023), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2023-W17), 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.