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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2026/031

Medicine Supply Notification: Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml (Fixapost®) eye drops 0.2ml unit dose preservative free

MSN/2026/031 Tier 2 · medium · issued 09 Jul 2026

Latanoprost has been notified short 3 times since 2023 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2026/031
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
09 Jul 2026
Expected back
September 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.

PresentationStatus, as statedExpected back, as statedStated in
Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol [0.5%] 5mg/ml (Fixapost®) preservative free eye drops, 0.2ml unit doseaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedJanuary 2027precision: a month · window end 31 Jan 2027, derived from “January 2027”notice of 09 Jul 2026
Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol [0.5%] 5mg/ml (Vizilatan Duo®) preservative free eye dropsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 09 Jul 2026
Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml eye drops (containing preservatives)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 09 Jul 2026
Timolol (Eysano®) 5mg/ml [0.5%] preservative free eye dropsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →Stated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 09 Jul 2026
Timolol (Eysano®) 2.5mg/ml [0.25%] preservative free eye dropsaffected product · inferred from phrasing · its own page →Out of stock, as statedSeptember 2026precision: a month · window end 30 Sep 2026, derived from “September 2026”notice of 09 Jul 2026
Latanoprost (Monopost®) 50micrograms/ml preservative free eye drops, 0.2ml unit dosenamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 09 Jul 2026
Timolol (Tiopex®) 1mg/g [0.1%] preservative free eye gel, 0.4g unit dosenamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →Stated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 09 Jul 2026

What changed

  1. 09 Jul 2026Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 09 Jul 2026Expected backsource post

Provenance

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Recorded
10 Jul 2026 16:47 UTC
Capture route
Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check
Read from
Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)
Captured at
10 Jul 2026 16:47 UTC
Content hash
b8b96d057258b8208a3e9eb90731877a71cb170c5b4aa0bd9cb9c0c535f63106
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-latanoprost-50micrograms-ml-timolol-5mg-ml-fixapost-eye-drops-0-2ml-unit-dose-preservative-free-2/ ↗
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)
  • multiple statuses on one line (['available_no_uplift', 'available']) — recorded 'available_no_uplift' (source line omitted; see the source document)
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