Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP040

Phenoxymethylpenicillin 125mg-5ml oral solution sugar free

SSP040 · Expired · expiry 12 May 2023

Valid from: 15 Dec 2022
Current expiry: 12 May 2023
Source disagreement ⚠: The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 31 Jan 2023. 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: UK-wide
Legal category: POM
Medicine to be supplied: Phenoxymethylpenicillin 125mg/5ml oral solution

Read the full signed protocol (NHSBSA) ↗

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 15 Dec 2022 to 12 May 2023 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:040

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: 67af365bfa9438dde176c8f191ba6b6bb7f824776c7bc7201723551b761391f1
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#SSP040%20Phenoxymethylpenicillin%20125mg-5ml%20oral%20solution%20sugar%20free%201.1%2020122022.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: 55eb5007fe02b1e5412ecf9adc14bab8fb9c76b417e0b489a6e26d106008645b
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%20SSP040%20Penicillin%20125mg-5ml%20oral%20soln%20SF.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.