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Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP053

Clarithromycin 125mg-5ml oral suspension final

SSP053 · Expired · expiry 19 Jul 2024

Valid from
22 May 2024
Current expiry
19 Jul 2024
Source disagreement ⚠
The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 28 Apr 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) ↗ · 1 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
Clarithromycin 250mg/5ml oral suspension

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.

  • Clarithromycin · 2 notifications on record · matched by medicine name

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 22 May 2024 to 19 Jul 2024 as first issued. The archived protocol document remains 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:053

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
c395bba0b2d5aa575e59884eb33f234526b02a2f335f9a27147adeebf246f18f
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#SSP053%20Clarithromycin%20125mg-5ml%20oral%20suspension%20final%2006042023.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.