UK medicines supply · live
Every UK medicine shortage.
Every update. One timeline.
Shortage notices are scattered across gated tools and rolling news posts — and they vanish once resolved. ShortageSignal keeps the record: every Medicine Supply Notification, Serious Shortage Protocol and discontinuation, coded to dm+d, as status timelines whose every event links to its source.
Every number traces to a source document · the UK Shortage Index · how it works
Why it exists
The questions nobody could answer, answered.
How long will it last?
Expected-back dates slip constantly. We keep every revision, so you see the real track record — not just today's promise.
Has this happened before?
Recurrence and duration per medicine, from a register of notifications and Serious Shortage Protocols reaching back to 2020.
Where's the proof?
Every event links to its source document — the MSN post, the NHSBSA protocol — so anything here is one click from being verified.
Latest changes
- 14 Jul 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Nabilone 1mg capsules — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/032
- 10 Jul 2026SSP60 – Creon® 10000 gastro-resistant capsules further extended — SSP extended to 07 Aug 2026SSP060
- 10 Jul 2026SSP61 – Creon® 25000 gastro-resistant capsules further extended — SSP extended to 02 Oct 2026SSP061
- 09 Jul 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml (Fixapost® ) eye drops 0.2ml unit dose preservative free — Notification updatedMSN/2025/069
- 09 Jul 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Latanoprost 50micrograms/ml / Timolol 5mg/ml (Fixapost®) eye drops 0.2ml unit dose preservative free — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/031
- 07 Jul 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Sodium valproate (Epilim Chronosphere® ) 50mg, 250mg, and 500mg modified-release granules sachets sugar free — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/030
- 03 Jul 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Oxcarbazepine 150mg tablets (Viatris) — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/029
- 22 Jun 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Propafenone (Arythmol® ) 150mg tablets — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/027
- 22 Jun 2026Medicine Supply Notification: Disopyramide (Rythmodan® ) 100mg capsules and disopyramide (Rythmodan Retard® ) 250mg modified-release tablets — Supply notification issuedMSN/2026/028
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