Weekly digest · ISO week 2026-W28
06 Jul 2026 to 12 Jul 2026: UK medicine supply changes
5 items dated 06 Jul 2026 to 12 Jul 2026, 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).
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 07 Jul 2026 | Medicine Supply Notification: Sodium valproate (Epilim Chronosphere® ) 50mg, 250mg, and 500mg modified-release granules sachets sugar freesource document ↗ | Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2026/030 issued 07 Jul 2026 (tier 2 of 4). |
| 09 Jul 2026 | Medicine Supply Notification: Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml (Fixapost®) eye drops 0.2ml unit dose preservative freesource document ↗ | Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2026/031 issued 09 Jul 2026 (tier 2 of 4). |
Updated notices · 1
Notifications whose source post records an update dated this week.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 09 Jul 2026 | Medicine Supply Notification: Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml (Fixapost® ) eye drops 0.2ml unit dose preservative freesource document ↗ | Notification MSN/2025/069 updated 09 Jul 2026. |
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 · 2
Extensions are dated by the scheduled end they replaced, as the NHSBSA register and announcements record them.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Jul 2026 | SSP060 Creon® 10000 gastro-resistant capsulessource document ↗ | SSP060 extended: scheduled end moved from 10 Jul 2026 to 07 Aug 2026. |
| 10 Jul 2026 | SSP061 Creon® 25000 gastro-resistant capsulessource document ↗ | SSP061 extended: scheduled end moved from 10 Jul 2026 to 02 Oct 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 · 0
Register end dates from 13 Jul 2026 to 26 Jul 2026. A scheduled end is the register's date, nothing about local stock.
None recorded for this week.
Scotland · 0
NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notices issued this week — a separate source, never summed with England.
None recorded for this week.
Cite as: “UK medicine supply changes, week 2026-W28 (06 Jul 2026 to 12 Jul 2026), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2026-W28), 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.