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Weekly digest · ISO week 2024-W35

26 Aug 2024 to 01 Sep 2024: UK medicine supply changes

17 items dated 26 Aug 2024 to 01 Sep 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
27 Aug 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Isosorbide mononitrate 60mg modified-release tablets and capsules.source document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/092 issued 27 Aug 2024 (tier 2 of 4).
28 Aug 2024Medicine Supply Notification: Naloxone (Nyxoid® ) 1.8mg/0.1ml nasal spray unit dosesource document ↗Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2024/093 issued 28 Aug 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 · 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 Aug 2024MSN/2024/063 — Medicine Supply Notification: Memantine (Valios® ) 10mg and 20mg orodispersible tablets sugar freesource document ↗Expected back "late August 2024", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 31 Aug 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 · 9

Register end dates from 02 Sep 2024 to 15 Sep 2024. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.

DateRecordWhat the record says
13 Sep 2024SSP062 Quetiapine 150source document ↗Scheduled end 13 Sep 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
13 Sep 2024SSP063 Quetiapine 150source document ↗Scheduled end 13 Sep 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
13 Sep 2024SSP064 Quetiapine 150source document ↗Scheduled end 13 Sep 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
13 Sep 2024SSP065 Quetiapine 200source document ↗Scheduled end 13 Sep 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
13 Sep 2024SSP066 Quetiapine 200source document ↗Scheduled end 13 Sep 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
13 Sep 2024SSP067 Quetiapine 200source document ↗Scheduled end 13 Sep 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
13 Sep 2024SSP068 Quetiapine 300source document ↗Scheduled end 13 Sep 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
13 Sep 2024SSP069 Quetiapine 300source document ↗Scheduled end 13 Sep 2024 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting.
13 Sep 2024SSP070 Quetiapine 300source document ↗Scheduled end 13 Sep 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
28 Aug 2024MSAN(2024)49 — Naltrexone 50mg tabletssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 28 Aug 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
28 Aug 2024MSAN(2024)50 — Norethisterone (Noriday®) 350microgram tabletssource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 28 Aug 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
28 Aug 2024MSAN(2024)51 — Creon® Micro Pancreatin 60.12mg gastro-resistant granulessource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 28 Aug 2024, priority level 3. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
28 Aug 2024MSAN(2024)52 — Isosorbide mononitrate 60mg modified-release tablets and capsulessource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 28 Aug 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.
30 Aug 2024MSAN(2024)53 — Naloxone (Nyxoid®) 1.8mg/0.1ml nasal spray unit dosesource document ↗NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 30 Aug 2024, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts.

Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2024-W35 (26 Aug 2024 to 01 Sep 2024), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2024-W35), 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.