diff --git a/app/dao/notifications_dao.py b/app/dao/notifications_dao.py
index f5700ea68..48a45b597 100644
--- a/app/dao/notifications_dao.py
+++ b/app/dao/notifications_dao.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import functools
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from itertools import groupby
 from operator import attrgetter
@@ -40,7 +39,6 @@ from app.models import (
     NOTIFICATION_SENDING,
     NOTIFICATION_SENT,
     NOTIFICATION_STATUS_TYPES_COMPLETED,
-    NOTIFICATION_TECHNICAL_FAILURE,
     NOTIFICATION_TEMPORARY_FAILURE,
     SMS_TYPE,
     FactNotificationStatus,
@@ -489,29 +487,6 @@ def dao_delete_notifications_by_id(notification_id):
     ).delete(synchronize_session='fetch')
 
 
-def _timeout_notifications(current_statuses, new_status, timeout_start, updated_at):
-    # TEMPORARY: limit the notifications to 100K as otherwise we
-    # see an issues where the task vanishes after it starts executing
-    # - we believe this is a OOM error but there are no logs. From
-    # experimentation we've found we can safely process up to 100K.
-    notifications = Notification.query.filter(
-        Notification.created_at < timeout_start,
-        Notification.status.in_(current_statuses),
-        Notification.notification_type.in_([SMS_TYPE, EMAIL_TYPE])
-    ).limit(100000).all()
-
-    Notification.query.filter(
-        Notification.created_at < timeout_start,
-        Notification.status.in_(current_statuses),
-        Notification.notification_type.in_([SMS_TYPE, EMAIL_TYPE]),
-        Notification.id.in_([n.id for n in notifications]),
-    ).update(
-        {'status': new_status, 'updated_at': updated_at},
-        synchronize_session=False
-    )
-    return notifications
-
-
 def dao_check_notifications_still_in_created(minimum_age_in_seconds):
     min_created_at = datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(seconds=minimum_age_in_seconds)
 
@@ -534,15 +509,31 @@ def dao_timeout_notifications(timeout_period_in_seconds):
     """
     timeout_start = datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(seconds=timeout_period_in_seconds)
     updated_at = datetime.utcnow()
-    timeout = functools.partial(_timeout_notifications, timeout_start=timeout_start, updated_at=updated_at)
+    current_statuses = [NOTIFICATION_SENDING, NOTIFICATION_PENDING]
+    new_status = NOTIFICATION_TEMPORARY_FAILURE
 
-    # Notifications still in sending or pending status are marked with a temporary-failure:
-    temporary_failure_notifications = timeout([NOTIFICATION_SENDING, NOTIFICATION_PENDING],
-                                              NOTIFICATION_TEMPORARY_FAILURE)
+    # TEMPORARY: limit the notifications to 100K as otherwise we
+    # see an issues where the task vanishes after it starts executing
+    # - we believe this is a OOM error but there are no logs. From
+    # experimentation we've found we can safely process up to 100K.
+    notifications = Notification.query.filter(
+        Notification.created_at < timeout_start,
+        Notification.status.in_(current_statuses),
+        Notification.notification_type.in_([SMS_TYPE, EMAIL_TYPE])
+    ).limit(100000).all()
+
+    Notification.query.filter(
+        Notification.created_at < timeout_start,
+        Notification.status.in_(current_statuses),
+        Notification.notification_type.in_([SMS_TYPE, EMAIL_TYPE]),
+        Notification.id.in_([n.id for n in notifications]),
+    ).update(
+        {'status': new_status, 'updated_at': updated_at},
+        synchronize_session=False
+    )
 
     db.session.commit()
-
-    return temporary_failure_notifications
+    return notifications
 
 
 def is_delivery_slow_for_providers(