dexamethasone sodium phosphate
Current shortage
The TGA records this medicine as being in shortage now. A shortage often affects some brands, strengths or pack sizes and not others, so a supply of the medicine may still be available. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and what alternatives exist.
The TGA has assessed this shortage as critical impact. That is a judgement about how hard the medicine is to substitute in clinical care, not a prediction about any one person. If you take this medicine, speak to your pharmacist or doctor about what is available. Do not stop or change how you take it on your own.
3 product records on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, listed in full below. The TGA last updated this information on 15 October 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
DEXAMETHASONE JUNO dexamethasone phosphate (as dexamethasone sodium phosphate) 4 mg/1 mL solution for injection ampoule
Injection, solution · ARTG 379531
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- Status
- Current shortage The TGA records this medicine as being in shortage now. A shortage often affects some brands, strengths or pack sizes and not others, so a supply of the medicine may still be available. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and what alternatives exist.
- Supply
- Limited Availability The supplier reports limited stock.
- TGA impact rating
- Critical impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as critical impact. That is a judgement about how hard the medicine is to substitute in clinical care, not a prediction about any one person. If you take this medicine, speak to your pharmacist or doctor about what is available. Do not stop or change how you take it on your own.
- Reported from
- 15 October 2026 The TGA's dates span 1 month.
- Expected to be resolved
- 20 November 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 15 October 2026
What the TGA says is being done
The sponsor is working to expedite the next shipment. Alternative brands are available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
DBL DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE INJECTION 8mg/2mL (as sodium) injection vial
Injection, solution · ARTG 178774
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- Status
- Discontinued The supplier has told the TGA it is permanently stopping supply of this product in Australia. This is not a temporary shortage. Other brands or strengths of the same medicine may still be available, and your doctor or pharmacist can advise on what to do next.
- Supply
- Reduction in supply until supply is exhausted The supplier reports reduced stock, which will run out and not be replaced.
- TGA impact rating
- Critical impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as critical impact. That is a judgement about how hard the medicine is to substitute in clinical care, not a prediction about any one person. If you take this medicine, speak to your pharmacist or doctor about what is available. Do not stop or change how you take it on your own.
- Reported from
- 1 October 2027
- Expected to be resolved
- The TGA does not publish an end date for this record (it records "Unknown"). Voxsanity does not estimate one.
- TGA last updated
- 19 August 2026
What the TGA says is being done
Alternative brands are available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
DEXAMETHASONE MEDSURGE dexamethasone phosphate (as dexamethasone sodium phosphate) 8 mg/2 mL solution for injection ampoule
Injection, solution · ARTG 391479
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- 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
- 7 April 2026 The TGA's dates span 2 months.
- Resolved
- 2 June 2026
- TGA last updated
- 30 March 2026
Terms like ARTG, TGA and PBS are explained in the glossary.
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 dexamethasone sodium phosphate as a whole; to see them together, open the TGA Medicine Shortage Reports Database and type dexamethasone sodium phosphate 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.