Medicine Supply Notification: Xylocaine® (lidocaine) 10mg spray
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has issued a medicine supply notification for Xylocaine® (lidocaine) 10mg spray
MSN/2025/003
Tier 2 medium impact
Date of issue: 14th January 2025
- Xylocaine® (lidocaine) 10mg spray is out of stock until mid-February 2025.
- Lidocaine 5% / Phenylephrine 0.5% spray remains available and can support an increase in demand.
- Lidocaine 150mg/g / Cetrimide 1.5mg/g (Xylonor®) oromucosal spray remains available but cannot support an increase in demand.
- Lidocaine 50mg/g / Cetrimide 1.5mg/g (Xylonor Gel) remains available and can support an increase in demand
- Unlicensed supplies may be sourced, lead times vary
Unlicensed products
The following specialist importers have confirmed they can source unlicensed lidocaine 10mg/dose spray sugar free (please note there may be other companies that can also source supplies):
If there is currently no listing on dm+d for the imported product for prescribers to select using their prescribing systems an EPS prescription for the unlicensed product cannot be issued. Where a prescriber wishes to prescribe a specially manufactured or imported product, an FP10 paper prescription should be issued as ‘lidocaine 10mg/dose spray sugar free (Special Order)’ and endorsed by the pharmacy as a non-Part VIIIB special with the following information:
- Amount dispensed over pack size used;
- Invoice price per pack size from which the order was supplied less any discount or rebate;
- Manufacturers’/importers’ MHRA licence number;
- Batch number of the product supplied;
- SP
A copy of this medicine supply notification, including further information, has been sent to all pharmacy NHS email addresses.
DHSC and NHS England have now launched an online Medicines Supply Tool, which provides up to date information about medicine supply issues. The contents of these MSNs can now be viewed on the Tool
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New shortages not listed on the SPS website, can be reported using our shortage reporting tool.