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Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP023

Oestrogel

SSP023 · Substitution and restriction 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 and restriction
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:023

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
eaebed8fd89430b7387468b51140f915ef895de77e6bbe9ea7d1101e4b545b64
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#SSP023%20Oestrogel%20substitution%20and%20Restriction%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
5141f853cacd4b5e0b0344e02f4ace7d2f78d674ad808ee5410ca06ca6e499f2
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%20SSP023%20Oestrogel%20substitution%20and%20restriction%20v2%2030052022.pdf ↗
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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.