Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP017

Atorvastatin 20mg chewable tabs

SSP017 · Expired · expiry 05 Apr 2022

Valid from: 15 Feb 2022
Current expiry: 05 Apr 2022
Source disagreement ⚠: The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 11 Mar 2022. 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 and Wales
Legal category: POM
Medicine to be supplied: Atorvastatin 20mg tablets

Read the full signed protocol (NHSBSA) ↗

On the medicine record

The medicine pagesthis protocol is matched to by name — the latest England notice, each presentation's status as stated, and the history. Name-based until identifier coding refines it.

Atorvastatin · 3 notifications on record · matched by medicine name
Lipitor · 1 notification on record · matched by a bracketed name recorded for this medicine

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 15 Feb 2022 to 05 Apr 2022 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:017

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: 03bba0970b1a8618ffe90f82248d62e4ead6af8c8521605b20115b1f47a9c362
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#SSP017%20-%20atorvastatin%2020mg%20chewable%20tabs%20FINAL%2015022022.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: 319cadbaf2339603acbc0bea1c71f995d3293cc1dc159352f7b10ca6f945f7a6
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#Supporting%20endorsement%20guidance%20SSP017%20atorvastatin%2020mg%20chewable%20tablets%2014022022.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.