National Patient Safety Alert · MSN/2025/058
National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage of Antimicrobial Agents Used in Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment
MSN/2025/058 issued 29 Jul 2025
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethambutol tablets, Isoniazid tablets, and Rifinah® 150 tablets (rifampicin 150 mg / isoniazid 100 mg) and Mycobutin® (rifabutin) 150mg capsulesnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing | Stated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand | — not stated for this line | notice of 29 Jul 2025MSN/2025/058 |
What changed
- 29 Jul 2025National Patient Safety Alert issuedsource post
- 23 Oct 2025Supply notification issuedsource 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:23f7ecb2c8f5Medicine Supply Notification: Antimicrobial Agents Used in Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment
- Recorded
- 22 Nov 2025 07:35 UTC (Internet Archive capture)the earliest capture we hold is the Internet Archive's, not first-hand
- 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 14:44 UTC
- Content hash
822badb9c2ccdae7f61bec45cdb797900dbd5f0d23c83d6b2fe6542485708674sha256 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-antimicrobial-agents-used-in-tuberculosis-tb-treatment ↗
- Parser version
- 3
- Source anomalies
- no product/status lines recognised
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
post:5e3907546fbdNational Patient Safety Alert: Shortage of Antimicrobial Agents Used in Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment
- 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
156f3202396ad81ec490e8e6f8e9bd17e0717a70c851350214f3b1b05bd4c4ecsha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct- Source document
- https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-of-antimicrobial-agents-used-in-tuberculosis-tb-treatment ↗
- 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
This reference appears on 2 records in the archive (an original notification and its updates) — all shown together above.
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.