Weekly digest · ISO week 2025-W52
22 Dec 2025 to 28 Dec 2025: UK medicine supply changes
5 items dated 22 Dec 2025 to 28 Dec 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.
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).
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Dec 2025 | Medicine Supply Notification: Clonidine (Catapres®) 100microgram tabletssource document ↗ | Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2025/070 issued 23 Dec 2025 (tier 2 of 4). |
| 23 Dec 2025 | Medicine Supply Notification: Genotropin® (somatropin) 5.3 mg and 12 mg powder and solvent for solution for injectionsource document ↗ | Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2025/072 issued 23 Dec 2025 (tier 2 of 4). |
| 23 Dec 2025 | Medicine Supply Notification: Diamorphine 5mg, 10mg and 100mg powder for solution for injection ampoulessource document ↗ | Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2025/071 issued 23 Dec 2025 (tier 3 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 · 0
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.
None recorded for this week.
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 Dec 2025 to 11 Jan 2026. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.
None recorded for this week.
Scotland · 2
NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices issued this week — a separate source, never summed with England.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Dec 2025 | MSAN(2025)55 — Nifedipine (Adipine® XL) 30mg and 60mg modified-release tabletssource document ↗ | NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 24 Dec 2025, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts. |
| 24 Dec 2025 | MSAN(2025)56 — Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml (Fixapost®) eye drops 0.2mlsource document ↗ | NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice issued 24 Dec 2025, priority level 2. Scotland only — never added to England counts. |
Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2025-W52 (22 Dec 2025 to 28 Dec 2025), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2025-W52), 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.