Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2026/004

Medicine Supply Notification: Oxybutynin (Kentera® ) 3.9mg/24hours transdermal patches

MSN/2026/004 Tier 2 · medium · issued 28 Jan 2026

Oxybutynin has been notified short 4 times since 2022 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2026/004
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 28 Jan 2026
Expected back: late-February 2026 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
Oxybutynin (Kentera®) 3.9mg/24hours transdermal patchesaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	late-February 2026precision: late in the month · window end 28 Feb 2026, derived from “late-February 2026”	notice of 28 Jan 2026
Oxybutynin 5mg and 10mg modified-release tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 28 Jan 2026
Oxybutynin 2.5mg/5ml and 5mg/5ml oral solution sugar freenamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 28 Jan 2026
Oxybutynin 2.5mg and 5mg tabletsnamed 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 28 Jan 2026
Alternative anticholinergic/non-anticholinergic agents for urinary incontinenceclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 28 Jan 2026

What changed

28 Jan 2026Supply notification issuedsource post
28 Jan 2026Expected backsource post

Provenance

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Recorded

12 Jul 2026 14:43 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 14:43 UTC

Content hash

3543da10028eb4b783a5a6218e458c785032090de81d3caf9dd3bb1fa888473e

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-oxybutynin-kentera-3-9mg-24hours-transdermal-patches ↗

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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