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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2025/041

Medicine Supply Notification: Salbutamol 100micrograms/dose breath actuated inhalers CFC free

MSN/2025/041 Tier 2 · medium · issued 04 Jul 2025

Salbutamol has been notified short 5 times since 2024 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2025/041
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
04 Jul 2025
Expected back
mid-September 2025 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
3
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.

PresentationStatus, as statedExpected back, as statedStated in
Salbutamol (Salamol Easi-Breathe®) 100micrograms/dose breath actuated inhaler CFC freeaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedmid-September 2025precision: mid-month · window end 20 Sep 2025, derived from “mid-September 2025”notice of 04 Jul 2025
Salbutamol (Airomir®) 100micrograms/dose breath actuated inhaler CFC freeaffected product · inferred from phrasingDiscontinued, as stated— not stated for this linenotice of 04 Jul 2025
Salbutamol (Salamol®) 100micrograms/dose inhaler CFC free pressurised metered-dose inhaler (pMDIs)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 04 Jul 2025
Salbutamol (Easyhaler®) 100micrograms/dose dry powder inhaler (DPI)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 04 Jul 2025
Salbutamol (Ventolin Evohaler®) 100microgram/dose inhaler CFC free pMDI and salbutamol (Salbulin Novolizer®) 100micrograms/dose inhalation powdernamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 04 Jul 2025

What changed

  1. 04 Jul 2025Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 04 Jul 2025Product discontinuedsource post
  3. 04 Jul 2025Expected backsource post

Provenance

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Recorded
12 Jul 2026 14:45 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 14:45 UTC
Content hash
e309b67eebf04e70953c0fd8471f3bd58e91d2d8267edc10e873516a27cd6811
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-salbutamol-100micrograms-dose-breath-actuated-inhalers-cfc-free ↗
Parser version
3
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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