Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2025/003

Medicine Supply Notification: Xylocaine® (lidocaine) 10mg spray

MSN/2025/003 issued 14 Jan 2025

Xylocaine has been notified short 2 times since 2021 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2025/003
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 14 Jan 2025
Expected back: mid-February 2025 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes: 2
Source: Announcement post ↗

Presentations, as stated

Each product line re-expressed as the product named, the status the source stated and its expected-back phrase kept as written — not the source's sentence, and not an observation of stock. Roles are inferred from phrasing.

Presentation	Status, as stated	Expected back, as stated	Stated in
Xylocaine® (lidocaine) 10mg sprayaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	mid-February 2025precision: mid-month · window end 20 Feb 2025, derived from “mid-February 2025”	notice of 14 Jan 2025
Lidocaine 5% / Phenylephrine 0.5% spraynamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 14 Jan 2025
Lidocaine 150mg/g / Cetrimide 1.5mg/g (Xylonor®) oromucosal spraynamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →	Stated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand	— not stated for this line	notice of 14 Jan 2025
Lidocaine 50mg/g / Cetrimide 1.5mg/g (Xylonor Gel)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 14 Jan 2025

What changed

14 Jan 2025Supply notification issuedsource post
14 Jan 2025Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:cf94284f3ae9

Recorded

12 Jul 2026 14:47 UTC

Capture route

Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check

Read from

Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)

Captured at

12 Jul 2026 14:47 UTC

Content hash

be387c47327d79db5060cfdf36beb223d7aa8df77a3a7c226fa16ab4f74ec79f

sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct

Source document

https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-xylocaine-lidocaine-10mg-spray ↗

Parser version

Source anomalies

multiple statuses on one line (['available_no_uplift', 'available']) — recorded 'available_no_uplift' (source line omitted; see the source document)

as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected

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