Published 20 March 2019
Last updated 4 September 2023 — See all updates
DHSC
reporting requirements for medicine shortages and
discontinuations
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Discontinuations and shortages
(DaSH) portal MAH and administrator set-up form
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Discontinuations and shortages
(DaSH) portal: marketing authorisation holder administrator
manual
Discontinuations and shortages
(DaSH) portal: marketing authorisation holder user
manual
Details
This guidance is for medicines marketing authorisation holders
(MAHs). It
gives them an overview of how to report medicines shortages to
the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) under the
January 2019
regulations.
MAHs
should report supply issues, including potential shortages and
discontinuations, to DHSC via the
discontinuations and shortages
(DaSH)
portal.
The document ‘DHSC reporting
requirements for medicine shortages and discontinuations’
replaces the best practice guidelines that were published in
2007.
The DaSH
portal MAH
administrator and user manuals have been updated to include
instructions on how to use the new archive function and how to
view the new notifications function within the DaSH system.
Setting up administrators on the DaSH portal
- Complete the ‘Discontinuations and shortages (DaSH) portal
MAH
and administrator set-up form’ (above) with details of
MAH-nominated
DaSHportal
users.
