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Weekly digest · ISO week 2024-W17

22 Apr 2024 to 28 Apr 2024: UK medicine supply changes

10 items dated 22 Apr 2024 to 28 Apr 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 · 3

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

DateRecordWhat the record says
23 Apr 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Naloxegol (Moventig® ) 12.5mg and 25mg tabletssource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/045 issued 23 Apr 2024 (tier 2 of 4).
25 Apr 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Daktacort® (hydrocortisone 1% / miconazole 2%) creamsource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/047 issued 25 Apr 2024 (tier 2 of 4).
25 Apr 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Mesalazine (Asacol® ) 400mg MR gastro-resistant tabletssource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/048 issued 25 Apr 2024 (tier 2 of 4).

Updated notices · 0

Notifications whose source post records an update dated this week.

None recorded for this week.

Discontinuations · 2

Discontinuations stated in a notice, dated by the notice or update that states them.

DateRecordWhat the record says
25 Apr 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Mesalazine (Asacol® ) 400mg MR gastro-resistant tabletssource document ↗Discontinuation notified in MSN/2024/048, dated 25 Apr 2024.
25 Apr 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Daktacort® (hydrocortisone 1% / miconazole 2%) creamsource document ↗Discontinuation notified in MSN/2024/047, dated 25 Apr 2024.

Expected-back windows ending this week · 1

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
28 Apr 2024MSN/2024/023 — Medicine Supply Notification: Epilim® (sodium valproate) syrup 200mg/5mlsource document ↗Expected back "w/c 22nd April 2024", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 28 Apr 2024 (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 · 0

Register end dates from 29 Apr 2024 to 12 May 2024. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.

None recorded for this week.

Scotland · 4

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

DateRecordWhat the record says
25 Apr 2024MSAN(2024)15 — Phenobarbital 15mg tablets (Accord)source document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 25 Apr 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
25 Apr 2024MSAN(2024)16 — Carbamazepine 100mg and 200mg tabletssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 25 Apr 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
25 Apr 2024MSAN(2024)17 — Naloxegol (Moventig®) 12.5mg and 25mg tabletssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 25 Apr 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
27 Apr 2024MSAN(2024)18 — Mesalazine (Asacol®) 400mg MR gastro-resistant tabletssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 27 Apr 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.

Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2024-W17 (22 Apr 2024 to 28 Apr 2024), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2024-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.