Weekly digest · ISO week 2026-W40
28 Sep 2026 to 04 Oct 2026: UK medicine supply changes
10 items dated 28 Sep 2026 to 04 Oct 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 · 1
Medicine Supply Notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts dated this week (England).
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Oct 2026 | National Patient Safety Alert: Levemir® (insulin detemir) FlexPen® and Levemir® (insulin detemir) Penfill®source document ↗ | National Patient Safety Alert MSN/2025/036 issued 01 Oct 2026. |
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.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Oct 2026 | National Patient Safety Alert: Levemir® (insulin detemir) FlexPen® and Levemir® (insulin detemir) Penfill®source document ↗ | Discontinuation notified in MSN/2025/036, dated 01 Oct 2026. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep 2026 | MSN/2026/031 — Medicine Supply Notification: Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml (Fixapost®) eye drops 0.2ml unit dose preservative freesource document ↗ | Expected back "September 2026", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 30 Sep 2026 (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 · 1
Serious Shortage Protocols (UK-wide) whose issue, expiry or revocation is dated this week.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 02 Oct 2026 | SSP060 Creon® 10000 gastro-resistant capsules | SSP expired recorded 02 Oct 2026. |
Protocols extended · 5
Extensions are dated by the scheduled end they replaced, as the NHSBSA register and announcements record them.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 02 Oct 2026 | SSP061 Creon® 25000 gastro-resistant capsules | SSP061 extended: scheduled end moved from 02 Oct 2026 to 08 Jan 2027. |
| 02 Oct 2026 | SSP080 Estradot 75mcg patches | SSP080 extended: scheduled end moved from 02 Oct 2026 to 08 Jan 2027. |
| 02 Oct 2026 | SSP079 Estradot 50mcg patches | SSP079 extended: scheduled end moved from 02 Oct 2026 to 08 Jan 2027. |
| 02 Oct 2026 | SSP081 Estradot 100mcg patches | SSP081 extended: scheduled end moved from 02 Oct 2026 to 08 Jan 2027. |
| 02 Oct 2026 | SSP082 Estradot 25mcg patches | SSP082 extended: scheduled end moved from 02 Oct 2026 to 08 Jan 2027. |
Protocol end dates this week · 1
Protocols whose NHSBSA register end date falls this week, per the register as last checked.
| Date | Record | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| 02 Oct 2026 | SSP060 Creon® 10000 gastro-resistant capsulessource document ↗ | Scheduled end 02 Oct 2026 per the NHSBSA register as last checked (extended 8 times so far). An extension moves this date; check the register before acting. |
Protocols scheduled to end in the following 14 days · 0
Register end dates from 05 Oct 2026 to 18 Oct 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-W40 (28 Sep 2026 to 04 Oct 2026), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2026-W40), 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.