Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2026/033

Medicine Supply Notification: Nifedipine 10mg, 20mg, 30mg and 60mg modified-release tablets

MSN/2026/033 Tier 2 · medium · issued 23 Jul 2026

Nifedipine has been notified short 3 times since 2025 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2026/033
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 23 Jul 2026
Expected back: late November 2026 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes: 3
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
Tensipine® MR 10 and 20 tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	to be confirmed, as stated	notice of 23 Jul 2026
Adalat® LA 30 tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	late November 2026precision: late in the month · window end 30 Nov 2026, derived from “late November 2026”	notice of 23 Jul 2026
Adanif® XL 30mg and 60mg tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Discontinued, as stated	— not stated for this line	notice of 23 Jul 2026
Alternative brands of nifedipine modified-release tabletsclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 23 Jul 2026
Coracten® SR 10mg and 20mg capsules, and Coracten® XL 30mg and 60mg capsulesnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 23 Jul 2026

What changed

23 Jul 2026Supply notification issuedsource post
23 Jul 2026Product discontinuedsource post
23 Jul 2026Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:79f182ca2694

Recorded

23 Jul 2026 18:39 UTC

Capture route

Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check

Read from

Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)

Captured at

23 Jul 2026 18:39 UTC

Content hash

fa0560594042477b4be5c3b2eb2c24a167d78459f235e8521b21dade7282c17e

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-nifedipine-10mg-20mg-30mg-and-60mg-modified-release-tablets/ ↗

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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