National Patient Safety Alert · NatPSA/2025/003/DHSC

National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage Of Bumetanide 1mg Tablets - Updated

NatPSA/2025/003/DHSC issued 03 Jul 2025

Bumetanide has been notified short 2 times since 2023 — see the full history →

Reference: NatPSA/2025/003/DHSC
Kind: National Patient Safety Alert
Issued: 03 Jul 2025
Expected back: late July 2025 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
Bumetanide 1mg tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	mid-August 2025precision: mid-month · window end 20 Aug 2025, derived from “mid-August 2025”	notice of 03 Jul 2025
Bumetanide 1mg/5ml oral solution and bumetanide 5mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand	— not stated for this line	notice of 03 Jul 2025
Furosemide 20mg and 40mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 03 Jul 2025

What changed

03 Jul 2025National Patient Safety Alert issuedsource post
03 Jul 2025Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:a2ad723f4509

Recorded

12 Jul 2026 14:45 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 14:45 UTC

Content hash

29e8a8ac8f04e376bea9b51f8b0ca1da095db356c1daae8dde96dba469a588f5

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Source document

https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-of-bumetanide-1mg-tablets ↗

Parser version

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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