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Weekly digest · ISO week 2024-W09

26 Feb 2024 to 03 Mar 2024: UK medicine supply changes

8 items dated 26 Feb 2024 to 03 Mar 2024, 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.

Sources are checked twice daily by scheduled jobs (not live). Last checked 2026-10-20 20:54 UTC. England first; Scotland in its own section, never summed. Absence from this page is not availability. Also as Atom and JSON.

New notices · 2

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

DateRecordWhat the record says
26 Feb 2024National Patient Safety Alert DHSC: Shortage of salbutamol 2.5mg/2.5ml and 5mg/2.5ml nebuliser liquid unit dose vials - Updatedsource document ↗National Patient Safety Alert MSN/2024/028 issued 26 Feb 2024.
27 Feb 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Midazolam (Epistatus® ) 5mg/0.5ml oromucosal solution pre-filled oral syringessource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/025 issued 27 Feb 2024 (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 · 3

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
29 Feb 2024MSN/2023/112 — Medicine Supply Notification: Diazepam 2mg/5ml oral solution sugar freesource document ↗Expected back "February 2024", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 29 Feb 2024 (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.
29 Feb 2024MSN/2023/119 — Medicine Supply Notification: Estradiol (Estring® ) 7.5micrograms/24hours vaginal delivery systemsource document ↗Expected back "February 2024", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 29 Feb 2024 (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.
29 Feb 2024MSN/2023/120 — Medicine Supply Notification: Sando-K ® (potassium chloride 600mg and potassium bicarbonate 400mg [total potassium 12mmol] effervescent tabletssource document ↗Expected back "late February 2024", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 29 Feb 2024 (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 · 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 04 Mar 2024 to 17 Mar 2024. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.

None recorded for this week.

Scotland · 3

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

DateRecordWhat the record says
29 Feb 2024MSAN(2024)2 — Epilim® (sodium valproate) syrup 200mg/5mlsource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 29 Feb 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
29 Feb 2024MSAN(2024)3 — Midazolam (Epistatus®) 5mg/0.5ml oromucosal solution pre-filled oral syringessource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 29 Feb 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
29 Feb 2024MSAN(2024)4 — Salbutamol 2.5mg/2.5ml and 5mg/2.5ml nebuliser liquid unit dose vialssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 29 Feb 2024, priority level 3. Scotland only — never added to England counts.

Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2024-W09 (26 Feb 2024 to 03 Mar 2024), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2024-W09), 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.