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Coming back to: Official shortage notices and what they authorise

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r.scholtenTL2Member6 Feb 2025#4

f.fenwick, post #2: The published shortage register maintained by the national regulator is the authoritative source here, and it is updated far more often than any thread. I have no interest in any supplier named above. Go to post

This follows post #3 rather than contradicting it.

Shortage predictions: regulators and suppliers issue shortage alerts before they become acute. Checking the regulatory website for shortages gives you advance notice.

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o.vogelTL2 Solution8 Feb 2025#7

The version of Official shortage notices that circulates here is a simplification of a simplification. It is not wrong, but it has lost the conditions under which it holds, and those conditions are where the interesting cases live.

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DOdendaalTL3Regular16 Feb 2025#21

On post #19 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.

Managing an unplanned gap: if a shortage causes a gap in treatment, the questions are how long the gap will be and how that affects your condition. Discussing with your clinician is prudent if the gap is weeks or longer.

I would treat the number as indicative rather than as a measurement.

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h.kimaniTL223 Feb 2025#35

Compounding during shortages: some jurisdictions allow pharmacy compounding when a marketed product is in shortage. That permission is jurisdiction-specific and time-limited (usually for the duration of the shortage).

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n.chowdhuryTL224 Feb 2025#39

sa.okonkwo, post #18: Thank you — that answers what I came here to find out. Go to post

An observation about Official shortage notices that I cannot explain and am posting anyway, on the principle that unexplained observations are more useful public than private.

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z.yildizTL225 Feb 2025#41

Post #37 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.

Shortage predictions: regulators and suppliers issue shortage alerts before they become acute. Checking the regulatory website for shortages gives you advance notice.

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