Weekly digest · ISO week 2026-W41
05 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026: UK medicine supply changes
3 items dated 05 Oct 2026 to 11 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 06 Oct 2026 | Medicine Supply Notification: Lacidipine 2mg and 4mg tabletssource document ↗ | Medicine Supply Notification MSN/2026/046 issued 06 Oct 2026 (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 · 2
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 06 Oct 2026 | MSN/2025/062 — Medicine Supply Notification: Rivastigmine 4.6mg/24hours and 9.5mg/24hours transdermal patches – updatedsource document ↗ | Expected back "w/c late September 2026", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 06 Oct 2026 (six days after the last day of the stated month, the latest a week commencing in that month can end; the source gives no readable day). Reaching it is an observation about the record, not about stock at your wholesaler. |
| 11 Oct 2026 | MSN/2026/041 — Medicine Supply Notification: Methylprednisolone (Medrone®) 100mg tabletssource document ↗ | Expected back "w/c 5 October 2026", as currently stated by the source. That stated window ends by 11 Oct 2026 (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 · 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 12 Oct 2026 to 25 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-W41 (05 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026), ShortageSignal (shortagesignal.co.uk/digest/2026-W41), 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.