Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2026/010

Medicine Supply Notification: Phenobarbital 30mg and 60mg tablets

MSN/2026/010 Tier 2 · medium · issued 16 Feb 2026

Phenobarbital has been notified short 3 times since 2024 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2026/010
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 16 Feb 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
Phenobarbital 30mg tablets and 60mg tablets (Teva)affected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	mid/late March 2026precision: late in the month · window end 31 Mar 2026, derived from “mid/late March 2026”	notice of 16 Feb 2026
Phenobarbital 60mg tablets (Accord)affected 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 16 Feb 2026
Phenobarbital 30mg tablets from other manufacturers (Accord and Bristol)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 16 Feb 2026
Phenobarbital 15mg tablets (Teva)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available; can support only a partial uplift	— not stated for this line	notice of 16 Feb 2026

What changed

16 Feb 2026Supply notification issuedsource post
16 Feb 2026Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:2f3c2610da97

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

dfefdec02e0a4396a42b9b24b4db4b78e9184252011bb93192aab8f6e35117c4

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-phenobarbital-30mg-and-60mg-tablets ↗

Parser version

Source anomalies

multiple statuses on one line (['available_partial_uplift', 'available']) — recorded 'available_partial_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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