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Weekly digest · ISO week 2024-W22

27 May 2024 to 02 Jun 2024: UK medicine supply changes

10 items dated 27 May 2024 to 02 Jun 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
29 May 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Memantine (Valios® ) 10mg and 20mg orodispersible tablets sugar freesource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/063 issued 29 May 2024 (tier 2 of 4).
29 May 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Somatropin (NutropinAq® ) 10mg/2ml solution for injection cartridges Somatropin (Humatrope® ) 6mg, 12mg and 24mg powder and solvent for solution for injection cartridges - Updatedsource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/064 issued 29 May 2024 (tier 2 of 4).

Updated notices · 0

Notifications whose source post records an update dated this week.

None recorded for this week.

Discontinuations · 1

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

DateRecordWhat the record says
29 May 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Somatropin (NutropinAq® ) 10mg/2ml solution for injection cartridges Somatropin (Humatrope® ) 6mg, 12mg and 24mg powder and solvent for solution for injection cartridges - Updatedsource document ↗Discontinuation notified in MSN/2024/064, dated 29 May 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
31 May 2024MSN/2024/011 — Medicine Supply Notification: Methadone 5mg tabletssource document ↗Expected back "late May 2024", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 31 May 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 · 1

Register end dates from 03 Jun 2024 to 16 Jun 2024. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.

DateRecordWhat the record says
07 Jun 2024SSP059 Monomil XL 60mgsource document ↗Scheduled end 07 Jun 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.

Scotland · 5

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

DateRecordWhat the record says
30 May 2024MSAN(2024)27 — Nortriptyline 10mg/5ml and 25mg/5ml oral solution sugar-freesource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 30 May 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
30 May 2024MSAN(2024)28 — Clarithromycin 125mg/5ml and 250mg/5ml oral suspensionssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 30 May 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
30 May 2024MSAN(2024)29 — Salbutamol 2.5mg/2.5ml and 5mg/2.5ml nebuliser liquid unit dose vialssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 30 May 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
30 May 2024MSAN(2024)30 — Memantine (Valios®) 10mg and 20mg orodispersible tablets sugar freesource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 30 May 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
30 May 2024MSAN(2024)31 — Somatropin (NutropinAq®) 10mg/2ml solution for injection cartridgessource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 30 May 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.

Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2024-W22 (27 May 2024 to 02 Jun 2024), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2024-W22), 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.