Data may be out of date. Our scheduled checks are behind: the last successful check of the sources finished 20 Oct 2026, 21:00 UTC (15 days ago), more than 36 hours ago. Checks normally run twice daily, so figures on this page may be out of date. See the service status.
ShortageSignal

Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP039

Atorvastatin 20mg Chewable

SSP039 · Expired · expiry 03 Feb 2023

Valid from
23 Nov 2022
Current expiry
03 Feb 2023
Type
—
Official documents
Protocol & endorsement documents (NHSBSA) ↗ · 1 archived

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

How this protocol ended

Two kinds of entry, never merged: announcement-dated(the CPE post's own date for the change it announces) and register-observed (dated by the twice-daily check that first showed the change on the NHSBSA register — when we saw it, not when it was decided). Extensions made before our register captures began are known from CPE announcement posts only.

  1. 27 Jan 2023Withdrawn early — the register states 27 Jan 2023observed on the NHSBSA register on 10 Jul 2026

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:039

Recorded
10 Jul 2026 16:47 UTC
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
d9200bb6452951cca77311f5d30f780e552a1338a52e2b078c044f41143f7917
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%20SSP039%20Atorvastatin%2020mg%20Chewable%2022112022.pdf ↗
Subscribe to changes feed · site RSS

Feeds and calendars follow our twice-daily scheduled checks of the sources — they are not live. See privacy for what a sign-up stores.

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.