Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP051

Paracetamol 240mg suppositories

SSP051 · Expired · expiry 12 May 2023

Valid from: 17 Mar 2023
Current expiry: 12 May 2023
Source disagreement ⚠: The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 05 May 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: P
Medicine to be supplied: Paracetamol suppositories 250mg

Read the full signed protocol (NHSBSA) ↗

On the medicine record

The medicine pagethis 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.

Paracetamol · 3 notifications on record · matched by medicine name

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 17 Mar 2023 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:051

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: 7de6ab89846540ae29306b3c61d65dddc7f52747585478ea3452b0b0419a16f9
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#SSP051%20Paracetamol%20240mg%20suppositories%2016022023.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: 7a5fee4a522257296772cb8eefe596854962906355561b8aa55b2e9dce1a2689
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%20SSP051%20Paracetamol%20240mg%20suppositories%2016032023.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.