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Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP048

Estradot 50mcg patches

SSP048 · Expired · expiry 24 Feb 2023

Valid from
25 Jan 2023
Current expiry
24 Feb 2023
Source disagreement ⚠
The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 17 Feb 2023. The register is the authoritative list, so it is shown — the conflict is recorded, not smoothed over (see methodology).
Type
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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
Evorel® 50 microgram patch

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.

  • Estradot · 1 notification on record · matched by medicine name
  • Estradiol · 13 notifications on record · matched by a bracketed name recorded for this medicine

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 25 Jan 2023 to 24 Feb 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:048

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
5f4e16e554e1b12411ea97f4b87c0c99bd2fbfb939bddff188343a2380e46520
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#SSP048%20Estradot%2050mcg%20patches%20FINAL%2023012023.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
83796afcc25bd4da80cd70b8928a1832d5f68af6acbca915b5f94ecb1917701c
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%20SSP048%20Estradot%2050%2025012023.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.