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Serious Shortage Protocol · SSP008

Salazopyrin EN-Tabs 500mg

SSP008 · Expired · expiry 08 Mar 2021

Valid from
20 Oct 2020
Current expiry
08 Mar 2021
Source disagreement ⚠
The NHSBSA register gives the expiry above; the announcement posts we captured imply 04 Dec 2020. 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
England and Wales
Legal category
POM
Medicine to be supplied
Sulfasalazine 500mg gastro-resistant (GR) tablets

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.

  • Sulfasalazine · 3 notifications on record · matched by a bracketed name recorded for this medicine

No extensions recorded for this protocol — it ran from 20 Oct 2020 to 08 Mar 2021 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:008

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
51b9aeceeb42227facd42bd404f32150e97cb2fb7bb5509cabd23a144b506856
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#SSP008%20Salazopyrin%20EN-Tabs%20500mg.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
2bc0c13da7efcd01226f4830609abb0869d98b2292bb498d524b843565cffaa9
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#SSP008%20Supporting%20endorsement%20guidance%20Salazopyrin%20EN-Tabs%20500mg.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.