Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2025/048

Medicine Supply Notification: Estradiol (Progynova® TS) 50micrograms/24hours and 100micrograms/24hours transdermal patches

MSN/2025/048 Tier 2 · medium · issued 06 Aug 2025

Estradiol has been notified short 13 times since 2021 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2025/048
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 06 Aug 2025
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
Progynova® TS 50micrograms/24hours and 100micrograms/24hours transdermal patches (once weekly estradiol patches)affected product · inferred from phrasing	Discontinued, as stated	— not stated for this line	notice of 06 Aug 2025
FemSeven® 50micrograms/24 hours and 100micrograms/24 hours transdermal patches (once-weekly estradiol patches)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 06 Aug 2025
Evorel® 50micrograms and 100micrograms and Estraderm® MX 50micrograms and 100micrograms transdermal patches (twice-weekly estradiol patches)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 06 Aug 2025

What changed

06 Aug 2025Supply notification issuedsource post
06 Aug 2025Product discontinuedsource post

Provenance

Where this record's bytes came from and when they entered the record. The same fields ship with every API record (/api), so a citation can be checked against the capture. Internet-Archive recoveries are dated by the Archive's capture, never ours.

post:3aa18f01faf0

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: d553aec37f13df390206404f7da5bee1ba7c98d2c8080414e0f88a9bf3b998c9
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-estradiol-progynova-ts-50micrograms-24hours-and-100micrograms-24hours-transdermal-patches ↗
Parser version: 3

Subscribe to changes feed · calendar · site RSS · email

Atom Feed for EstradiolPaste this address into a feed reader (Outlook, Thunderbird, Feedly…): https://shortagesignal.co.uk/medicine/estradiol/feed.xml
Calendar Stated expected-back windows for EstradiolAdd it to your calendar app as a subscription by URL and paste https://shortagesignal.co.uk/medicine/estradiol/expected.ics. Per the vendors' own help pages: Outlook on the web— Calendar → Add calendar → Subscribe from web (Microsoft says a subscribed calendar “can sometimes take more than 24 hours” to refresh); Google Calendar— Other calendars → Add other calendars → From URL. Refresh timing is the calendar app's, not ours.
RSS The newest 50 recorded changes, site-wide · weekly digest (feed)
Email Email alerts are not yet sending.Leave your address and we'll send a confirmation link when alerts launch — nothing is sent until then, and nothing after unless you click it.
Not yet sending: a confirmation link comes when alerts launch. Privacy

Feeds and calendars follow our twice-daily scheduled checks of the sources — they are not live. See privacy for what a sign-up stores.

Dates are as stated in the source documents. Fuzzy source dates are kept fuzzy. Not an official NHS or DHSC service — in a shortage, follow the guidance issued to your pharmacy or prescriber.