Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2026/016

Medicine Supply Notification: Co-trimoxazole 40mg/200mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free and Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg/5ml oral suspension

MSN/2026/016 Tier 2 · medium · issued 25 Feb 2026

Co-Trimoxazole has been notified short 3 times since 2023 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2026/016
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 25 Feb 2026
Expected back: June 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
Co-trimoxazole 40mg/200mg/5ml oral suspension sugar freeaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	June 2026precision: a month · window end 30 Jun 2026, derived from “June 2026”	notice of 25 Feb 2026
Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg/5ml oral suspensionaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	to be confirmed, as stated	notice of 25 Feb 2026
Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg and 160mg/800mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 25 Feb 2026

What changed

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

Provenance

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post:2ced89f93f93

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

9f82b7b3357f5ceb31fbe00a5c7458085fd5b4cc3ee6b847bb5cc9af81a9d0f2

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Source document

https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-co-trimoxazole-40mg-200mg-5ml-oral-suspension-sugar-free-and-co-trimoxazole-80mg-400mg-5ml-oral-suspension ↗

Parser version

Source anomalies

multiple statuses on one line (['out_of_stock', 'tbc']) — recorded 'out_of_stock' (source line omitted; see the source document)

as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected

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