Medicine shortages and availability in the Czech Republic since 2008
Every supply report for medicines since 2008 (start, interruption, resumption, end), the shortages derived from them with start and end, and the medicines missing right now. Plus monthly distributor deliveries to pharmacies since 2020. Joins the medicines database on the SÚKL code.
One-time payment, final price for a personal licence, switch to business at checkout · data as of 9 November 2026
You are buying the Medicines, medicine shortages, pharmacies and healthcare providers bundle. It also includes: Medicinal products (SÚKL), Healthcare facilities (NRPZS), Pharmacies with opening hours and GPS.


How much work it saves
Unifying two versions of the interface of SÚKL, the Czech medicines agency, removing 295 duplicate reports, ordering the reports so that a later correction overrides the original plan (matching the SÚKL flag for all 22,516 products), deriving 40,146 shortages and joining 78 monthly DIS-13 files into one table.
Measured on our own build
- Lines of code and tests
- 1,093
- Machine time per build
- 5 mins
- AI agent tokens
- 10m
- AI agent run time
- 21 mins
Tokens and time cover the first working version of the code, written with Claude Fable 5.2. Not counted: researching sources and licences, quality checks and later fixes. Build including source downloads, measured on Apple M5 (10 cores, 24 GB RAM).
- Free sample: all tables cut down to the Kutná Hora area, in CSV and Parquet. Download the sample
- Data as of
- 9 November 2026
- Rows
- 2.2m
- Tables
- 7
- Formats
- PostgreSQL, Parquet, CSV, JSON
- Source licence
- SÚKL terms, commercial use allowed
What’s inside
Reports by marketing authorisation holders on the start, interruption, resumption and end of supply of medicinal products since 2007, with derived shortage intervals and a list of currently unavailable products, plus the monthly DIS-13 distributor deliveries (2020-05 to 2026-10). Linked to the Database of Medicinal Products by SÚKL code (name, ATC, holder). Status evaluated as of 2026-11-10.
| Table | Rows |
|---|---|
pripravkyAvailability overview: one row per SÚKL code that has at least one holder report or a DIS-13 record | 24,656 |
nedostupneCurrently unavailable products: the last valid report is an interruption or end of supply that has already taken effect and was not followed by a resumption | 14,472 |
vypadkyUnavailability intervals derived from the reports: interruptions of supply (until resumption) | 40,146 |
hlaseniReports by marketing authorisation holders on the start, interruption, resumption and end of supply of a medicinal product to the Czech market (SÚKL), with name, ATC and holder | 83,886 |
hlaseni_nahradySubstitute products given in reports of an interruption or end of supply (long table: report × substitute) | 195,440 |
distribuceMonthly deliveries and returns of medicinal products as reported by distributors (SÚKL DIS-13). Row = month × SÚKL code × customer type × movement type | 1,805,033 |
ciselnikyThe dataset’s code lists in one table: report types, supply statuses, DIS-13 customer and movement types, dispensing modes and registration statuses | 40 |
The reports are statements by marketing authorisation holders, not a measurement of availability in pharmacies. The shortages and the list of unavailable medicines are derived by the rules in the README; they are not an official SÚKL list.
Downloads
Every format contains the same data. Download only the one you need; verify its integrity with the SHA256SUMS file.
| Format | Files | Size |
|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQLschema.sql with types, keys, indexes and comments, and import.sh, which loads the data from CSV | 2 | 22 kB |
| ParquetOne file per table (zstd). DuckDB, Polars and pandas read it without an import. | 7 | 23 MB |
| CSVUTF-8, comma-separated, with a header; large tables as .csv.gz | 7 | 61 MB |
| JSONAn array of objects; large tables as JSON Lines (.jsonl.gz) | 7 | 124 MB |
Code example
More examples for SQL, DuckDB, Python and Node.js are in the README.md inside the bundle.
-- co teď chybí: registrované přípravky s přerušenými dodávkami, nejdelší výpadky nahoře
SELECT kod_sukl, nazev, doplnek, atc_kod, nedostupne_od, dni, termin_obnoveni, duvod, nahrazujici_kody
FROM sukl_vypadky.nedostupne
WHERE stav_kod = 'preruseno' AND stav_registrace_kod = 'R'
ORDER BY dni DESC;-- byl přípravek dostupný k danému dni? (žádný výpadek, který ten den pokrývá)
SELECT NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM sukl_vypadky.vypadky
WHERE kod_sukl = '0094113' AND zacatek <= DATE '2024-03-01' AND (konec IS NULL OR konec > DATE '2024-03-01')
) AS dostupny;-- měsíční dodávky jednoho přípravku do lékáren (dodávky minus vratky)
SELECT obdobi, sum(pocet_baleni) AS baleni
FROM 'parquet/distribuce.parquet'
WHERE kod_sukl = '0094113' AND typ_odberatele_kod = 'LEKARNA' GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1;Source and licence
- Sources
- SÚKL: Hlášení o uvedení, přerušení, ukončení a obnovení dodávek léčivého přípravku na trh (reports on the start, interruption, end and resumption of supply)
- SÚKL: mr.zip (daily file of reports)
- SÚKL: DIS-13 (summary information on distributor deliveries)
- NKOD: Hlášení o uvedení, přerušení, ukončení a obnovení dodávek (SÚKL)
- czechdatasets.com: the sukl-leciva dataset 2026-11 (the SÚKL Database of Medicinal Products): name, ATC, holder
- Processed by
- czechdatasets.com. The data is modified and is not an official output of the authority; the required attribution is in LICENCE.txt.
Joins with
Datasets share RÚIAN codes and IČO, so one JOIN connects them.


Medicinal products (SÚKL)
The complete Czech medicines database (SÚKL) in clean UTF-8 tables: packs, ATC tree, substances and composition. Plus monthly dispensing and average prices from pharmacies since May 2020.


Pharmacies with opening hours and GPS
All 2,682 Czech pharmacies and dispensing points on the official list: type, emergency service, mail order, e-prescriptions and opening hours by day as a table. Each has a municipality code and 99.6% an address point code and coordinates the source lacks.


Healthcare facilities (NRPZS)
Places of care from the national register of healthcare providers (NRPZS): doctors’ practices, hospitals, pharmacies. Specialties, forms and types of care, verified address and GPS.
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