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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
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 the source document); 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) ↗

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 10 Dec 2024 to 28 Nov 2025 as first issued. The archived protocol document remain on file.

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.