bupivacaine hydrochloride
Shortage resolved
The TGA records this shortage as over. Supply reaching individual pharmacies can still take time after a shortage is resolved, so your pharmacy may not have restocked yet.
3 product records on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, listed in full below. The TGA last updated this information on 16 July 2026. Not medical advice.
The TGA does not publish a reason for a shortage, so Voxsanity cannot show one. Nothing on this page is an explanation of why supply is affected — that information is not in the source and is not inferred here.
This is national information. The TGA records shortages for Australia as a whole. There is no state, territory or pharmacy-level stock information in this data, and Voxsanity cannot tell you whether a particular pharmacy has a medicine in stock. Your pharmacist can.
Products affected
MARCAIN SPINAL 0.5% HEAVY bupivacaine hydrochloride anhydrous 20mg/4mL injection ampoule
Injection, solution · ARTG 11941
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- No longer published The TGA no longer publishes a shortage report for this product, so it is not recorded as being in shortage now. The TGA removes a shortage report from its database some months after the shortage ends. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock.
- Supply
- Available The supplier reports stock is available, though not necessarily at every pharmacy.
- TGA impact rating
- Medium impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as medium impact, meaning some people may need to change brand, strength or product while it lasts.
- Reported from
- 15 May 2026 The TGA's dates span 5 days.
- Resolved
- 20 May 2026
- TGA last updated
- 15 April 2026
MARCAIN 0.5%w/v bupivacaine hydrochloride (as monohydrate) 100mg/20 mL injection ampoule
Injection, solution · ARTG 48328
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Shortage resolved The TGA records this shortage as over. Supply reaching individual pharmacies can still take time after a shortage is resolved, so your pharmacy may not have restocked yet.
- Supply
- Available The supplier reports stock is available, though not necessarily at every pharmacy.
- TGA impact rating
- Medium impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as medium impact, meaning some people may need to change brand, strength or product while it lasts.
- Reported from
- 15 April 2026 The TGA's dates span 3 months.
- Resolved
- 27 July 2026
- TGA last updated
- 2 March 2026
MARCAIN 0.5% bupivacaine hydrochloride (as monohydrate) 50mg/10mL injection ampoule
Injection, solution · ARTG 11937
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Shortage resolved The TGA records this shortage as over. Supply reaching individual pharmacies can still take time after a shortage is resolved, so your pharmacy may not have restocked yet.
- Supply
- Available The supplier reports stock is available, though not necessarily at every pharmacy.
- TGA impact rating
- Medium impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as medium impact, meaning some people may need to change brand, strength or product while it lasts.
- Reported from
- 4 March 2026 The TGA's dates span 1 month.
- Resolved
- 13 April 2026
- TGA last updated
- 16 July 2026
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Where this comes from
Source: Medicine Shortage Reports Database, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), © Commonwealth of Australia, reproduced with permission. The TGA does not endorse Voxsanity, and nothing here is presented as a TGA view. Shortage information is free for everyone on this site, with no account and no subscription.
Every product listed above links to the TGA's own shortage record for that product. The TGA's register is organised by product rather than by medicine, so there is no single TGA page covering bupivacaine hydrochloride as a whole; to see them together, open the TGA Medicine Shortage Reports Database and type bupivacaine hydrochloride into its filter box. General information about medicine shortages is on the TGA's medicine shortages page.
Voxsanity last read the register on 16 October 2026.
Not medical advice. Voxsanity republishes public government health data in plain English. Speak to your pharmacist or doctor about your own medicines. Do not stop or change how you take a medicine because of anything on this page.