Looking at January 2025[1], Medicines UK provides a monthly snapshot of the numbers of supply issues affecting generic[2] medicines in England, based on UK Government and NHS data. Since our analysis in February 2022, the Department of Health and Social Care has moved its supply issues update to being hosted on the Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) website. As a result, we have changed some of the ways we measure different kinds of supply issues to replicate the categorisations in the SPS medicines supply tool.
It is important to note that the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England work with suppliers to resolve and mitigate more supply issues than we count through this analysis. The supply issues we count cover below are the medicine presentations that DHSC and NHSE cannot adequately resolve nor mitigate, or feel it is important to make aware to pharmacists and NHS commissioners.