Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP022

Oestrogel

SSP022 · Substitution protocol · Expired · expiry 30 Nov 2022

Valid from: 19 May 2022
Current expiry: 30 Nov 2022
Source disagreement ⚠: The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 19 Aug 2022. The register is the authoritative list, so it is shown — the conflict is recorded, not smoothed over (see methodology).
Type: Substitution
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: UK-wide
Legal category: POM

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.

Estradiol · 13 notifications on record · matched by medicine name
Estradiol Valerate · 2 notifications on record · matched because this medicine's name begins with the protocol's

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 19 May 2022 to 30 Nov 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:022

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: 9b25c3fee6f4ad3e2bacb4050f2b2028be46bb27dc9f1abd5715f8303e2ce32d
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#SSP022%20Oestrogel%20Substitution%20Amendment.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: 2196e79a78c444bdbe2cca5da3b5a262522192086022faaae60841084e8f94b6
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#Endorsement%20guidance%20SSP022%20Oestrogel%20substitution%20v2%2030052022.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.