Weekly digest · ISO week 2025-W47
17 Nov 2025 to 23 Nov 2025: UK medicine supply changes
8 items dated 17 Nov 2025 to 23 Nov 2025, 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 · 2
Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Nov 2025 | Medicine Supply Notification: Ibandronic acid 150mg tabletssource document ↗ | Medicine Supply Notification issued 17 Nov 2025 (tier 2 of 4). |
| 20 Nov 2025 | National Patient Safety Alert: Harm from incorrect recording of a penicillin allergy as a penicillamine allergysource document ↗ | National Patient Safety Alert NatPSA/2025/006/NHSPS issued 20 Nov 2025. |
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.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Nov 2025 | MSN/2025/056 — Medicine Supply Notification: Amiodarone 100mg and 200mg tabletssource document ↗ | Expected back "w/c 17 November 2025", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 23 Nov 2025 (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 · 2
Extensions are dated by the scheduled end they replaced, as the NHSBSA register and announcements record them.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Nov 2025 | SSP060 Creon® 10000 gastro-resistant capsulessource document ↗ | SSP060 extended: scheduled end moved from 21 Nov 2025 to 16 Jan 2026. |
| 20 Nov 2025 | SSP061 Creon® 25000 gastro-resistant capsulessource document ↗ | SSP061 extended: scheduled end moved from 21 Nov 2025 to 16 Jan 2026. |
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 · 2
Register end dates from 24 Nov 2025 to 07 Dec 2025. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Nov 2025 | SSP077 Cefalexin 125mg-5ml oral suspensionsource document ↗ | Scheduled end 28 Nov 2025 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting. |
| 28 Nov 2025 | SSP078 Cefalexin 250mg-5ml oral suspensionsource document ↗ | Scheduled end 28 Nov 2025 per the NHSBSA register as last checked. An extension moves this date; check the register before acting. |
Scotland · 1
NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices issued this week — a separate source, never summed with England.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Nov 2025 | MSAN(2025)50 — Ibandronic acid 150mg tabletssource document ↗ | NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 19 Nov 2025, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts. |
Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2025-W47 (17 Nov 2025 to 23 Nov 2025), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2025-W47), 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.