Medicine supply disruption statistics, UK
Twice-yearly official statistics on medicine supply issue and discontinuation notifications reported to DHSC by pharmaceutical suppliers.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is notified about medicine supply issues or discontinuations primarily through formal reports submitted by pharmaceutical suppliers. These are submitted through DHSC’s online reporting tool, the Discontinuations and Shortages (DaSH) portal.
DHSC publishes medicine supply disruption statistics for the UK every 6 months.
Each publication contains statistics for the monthly number of supply issue and discontinuation notifications reported to the DaSH portal over the most recent 6-month period.
Every other publication also contains statistics for the root causes of DaSH supply issue notifications in the most recent full calendar year.
Detailed information on the data source, coverage, definitions, methodology, quality assurance processes and limitations is provided in the background and methodology.
If you have any questions in relation to these statistics, contact statistics@dhsc.gov.uk.