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Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP077

Cefalexin 125mg-5ml oral suspension

SSP077 · Expired · expiry 28 Nov 2025

Valid from
10 Dec 2024
Current expiry
28 Nov 2025
Source disagreement ⚠
The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 31 Jan 2025. 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
Cefalexin 125mg/5ml oral suspension (non sugar free)

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.

  • Cefalexin · 3 notifications on record · matched by medicine name

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 10 Dec 2024 to 28 Nov 2025 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:077

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
f0673b5bc433c9544c7a7073bdf39eb23f3824573d09ed1d738fb136ebfa9b62
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#SSP077%20Cefalexin%20125mg-5ml%20oral%20suspension.pdf ↗
1 further captured document 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
f8c09587f56e95291c616f75532b332640b41f6d97f2597d5cb60ed6dce6eae3
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#ENCE7C~1.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.