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Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP061

Creon® 25000 gastro-resistant capsules

SSP061 · Restriction protocol · in force · expiry 08 Jan 2027 · 7 extensions

Valid from
24 May 2024
Current expiry
08 Jan 2027
Source disagreement ⚠
The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 02 Oct 2026. The register is the authoritative list, so it is shown — the conflict is recorded, not smoothed over (see methodology).
Type
Restriction
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

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.

Extension history

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. 02 Oct 2026Extended — expiry moved 02 Oct 2026 → 08 Jan 2027observed on the NHSBSA register on 02 Oct 2026 register says amended 02 Oct 2026
  2. 10 Jul 2026Extended — expiry moved 10 Jul 2026 → 02 Oct 2026latest source post announced 10 Jul 2026
  3. 15 Apr 2026Extended — expiry moved 17 Apr 2026 → 10 Jul 2026latest source post announced 15 Apr 2026
  4. 16 Jan 2026Extended — expiry moved 16 Jan 2026 → 17 Apr 2026latest source post announced 16 Jan 2026
  5. 20 Nov 2025Extended — expiry moved 21 Nov 2025 → 16 Jan 2026latest source post announced 20 Nov 2025
  6. 23 May 2025Extended — expiry moved 23 May 2025 → 21 Nov 2025latest source post announced 23 May 2025
  7. 15 Nov 2024Extended — expiry moved 22 Nov 2024 → 23 May 2025latest source post announced 15 Nov 2024

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:061

Recorded
10 Jul 2026 16:47 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
fde1871b737b7c784f9e75413507981841bc425e3698915fcac57bac0ba8c807
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#SSP061%20Creon%2025000%20restriction%20FINAL%2023052024%20-%20Signed.pdf ↗
2 further captured documents behind this record

nhsbsa qa pdf

Capture route
Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check
Read from
nhsbsa qa pdf
Captured at
29 Sep 2026 20:44 UTC
Content hash
67e202e0e0b6f5f21ff50113430ffd71ce31b226902fdd888fadae70264bb47d
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#ENDORS~4.PDF ↗

SSP61 – Creon® 25000 gastro-resistant capsules further extended

Capture route
Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check
Read from
Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)
Captured at
10 Jul 2026 16:47 UTC
Content hash
de18551f4b658ec9157d2fe9833467cf3e45384212b4160aba93389efabb95fc
sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct
Source document
https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/ssp61-creon-25000-gastro-resistant-capsules-further-extended/ ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • body mentions other SSP numbers [60, 79, 80, 81, 82] — title number 61 wins
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
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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.