Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP010

Levothyroxine 12.5microgram tablets

SSP010 · Expired · expiry 01 Apr 2021

Valid from: 03 Feb 2021
Current expiry: 01 Apr 2021
Source disagreement ⚠: The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 05 Mar 2021. The register is the authoritative list, so it is shown — the conflict is recorded, not smoothed over (see methodology).
Type: —
Official documents: Protocol & endorsement documents (NHSBSA) ↗ · 2 archived

What this protocol permits

Read from the signed protocol — an excerpt for reference, not advice. The medicine to be supplied is quoted verbatim (every word checked against that PDF); scope and legal category are read from it. Quantity is deliberately not reproduced here — the full protocol sets the quantity, inclusion criteria, exclusions and endorsement rules; follow the complete document issued to your pharmacy.

Where it applies: England, Wales and Scotland
Legal category: POM
Medicine to be supplied: Levothyroxine 25 microgram tablets

Read the full signed protocol (NHSBSA) ↗

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 03 Feb 2021 to 01 Apr 2021 as first issued. The 2 archived protocol documents remain on file.

Provenance

Where this record's bytes came from and when they entered the record. The same fields ship with every API record (/api), so a citation can be checked against the capture. Internet-Archive recoveries are dated by the Archive's capture, never ours.

ssp:010

Recorded: 14 Jul 2026 14:03 UTC
Capture route: Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check
Read from: Signed protocol PDF (NHSBSA)
Captured at: 14 Jul 2026 14:03 UTC
Content hash: d3bed6144d21d8024639ec229cd13c03024c73466997a4c80c56f3a007dd7b34
sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct
Source document: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pharmacies-gp-practices-and-appliance-contractors/serious-shortage-protocols-ssps#SSP010%20Levothyroxine%2012.5microgram%20tablets.pdf ↗

1 further captured document behind this record

nhsbsa endorsement guidance pdf

Capture route: Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check
Read from: nhsbsa endorsement guidance pdf
Captured at: 14 Jul 2026 14:03 UTC
Content hash: ec47c8543534aee5248307fe5bb5facb9b0bf29285f0bb8503ad6d4ac98d63ba
sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct
Source document: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pharmacies-gp-practices-and-appliance-contractors/serious-shortage-protocols-ssps#SSP010%20Supporting%20endorsement%20guidance%20levothyroxine%2012.5mcg%20tabsv2.pdf ↗

Dates are as stated in the source documents. Where a protocol's announcement post and the NHSBSA register disagree, the register wins and the conflict is flagged. Serious Shortage Protocols are archived back to 2019.