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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2026/046

Medicine Supply Notification: Lacidipine 2mg and 4mg tablets

MSN/2026/046 Tier 2 · medium · issued 06 Oct 2026

Reference
MSN/2026/046
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
06 Oct 2026
Expected back
early November 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
Lacidipine 2mg and 4mg tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedearly November 2026precision: early in the month · window end 10 Nov 2026, derived from “early November 2026”notice of 06 Oct 2026
Lercanidipine 10mg and 20mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 06 Oct 2026
Amlodipine 2.5mg, 5mg, and 10mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 06 Oct 2026
Felodipine 2.5mg, 5mg, and 10mg modified release (MR) tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 06 Oct 2026
Nifedipine MR tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 06 Oct 2026

What changed

  1. 06 Oct 2026Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 06 Oct 2026Expected backsource post

Provenance

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Recorded
06 Oct 2026 14:16 UTC
Capture route
Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check
Read from
Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)
Captured at
06 Oct 2026 14:16 UTC
Content hash
910f6efaad12c5f323fb9b65c04302f7635ec8016b58806246eca15a8ce5b902
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-lacidipine-2mg-and-4mg-tablets/ ↗
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)
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
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