Your NovoRapid FlexTouch pen is being retired: what changes (and what doesn’t)
NovoRapid FlexTouch 3ml pre-filled pens were discontinued from March 2025. FlexPen and Penfill cartridges, the same insulin, remain available.
If you use the NovoRapid FlexTouch pen, the device is being retired, but the insulin inside it is not changing. NovoRapid (a fast-acting mealtime insulin) stays exactly the same. Only one particular pre-filled pen that holds it is being discontinued, and there are like-for-like ways to get the identical insulin, so nobody is losing NovoRapid.
- The supply notice says NovoRapid FlexTouch 3ml pre-filled pens are out of stock and will be discontinued from March 2025, so people using them will be moved to another pen or cartridge.
- The insulin, insulin aspart, is identical across the options, so this is a change of pen, not a change of what you inject.
- The same insulin stays available as the NovoRapid FlexPen (another disposable pen), as Penfill cartridges (refills for a reusable pen), and as Trurapi (a near-identical biosimilar version).
- The one practical step is to check the exact product name on your repeat prescription and ask your pharmacist or team to confirm the swap before you run low.
A pen is being withdrawn, not an insulin
Supply notices like this are routine, and they usually reflect a manufacturing or stock decision rather than anything being wrong with the medicine. This one covers the NovoRapid FlexTouch, a disposable pre-filled pen. It says these 3ml pens are out of stock and will be discontinued from March 2025. The wording that matters most is that the insulin itself, insulin aspart, keeps being supplied. What is going away is one particular pen that holds it, not the fast-acting insulin you rely on at meals.
Checking your prescription and swapping in good time
The same NovoRapid insulin is available as the FlexPen, another disposable pen, and as Penfill cartridges that click into a reusable pen. There is also Trurapi, a biosimilar, which is a near-identical version of the same type of insulin. Your GP or diabetes team will move you to one of these, so the useful thing you can do is check the product name on your next repeat prescription. If it still says FlexTouch, ask what you are being switched to and sort it before you run low, so there is never a gap in your mealtime insulin. Moving to the same insulin in a different pen is not meant to change the insulin itself, but if anything about using it feels different, that is a question for your team.