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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2021/062

Medicine Supply Notification: Diamorphine 5mg and 10mg powder for solution for injection ampoules - Updated

MSN/2021/062 Tier 2 · medium · issued 29 Nov 2021

Diamorphine has been notified short 3 times since 2021 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2021/062
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
29 Nov 2021
Expected back
early January 2022 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 02 Dec 2023 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

Presentations, as stated

Each product line re-expressed as the product named, the status the source stated and its expected-back phrase kept as written — not the source's sentence, and not an observation of stock. Roles are inferred from phrasing.

PresentationStatus, as statedExpected back, as statedStated in
Diamorphine 5mg ampoulesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedearly January 2022precision: early in the month · window end 10 Jan 2022, derived from “early January 2022”notice of 29 Nov 2021
Diamorphine 10mg, 30mg and 100mg ampoulesnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 29 Nov 2021

What changed

  1. 29 Nov 2021Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 29 Nov 2021Expected backsource post

Provenance

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Recorded
02 Dec 2023 12:36 UTC (Internet Archive capture)
the earliest capture we hold is the Internet Archive's, not first-hand
Capture route
Recovered from the Internet Archive — not first-hand capture
Read from
Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)
Captured at
02 Dec 2023 12:36 UTC
Content hash
dfeec5815faee3303dd3b276b54c607b1d575eff821b8d1b2ff947793bf55c3b
sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct
Source document
https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-diamorphine-5mg-powder-for-solution-for-injection-ampoules ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20231202123607id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-diamorphine-5mg-powder-for-solution-for-injection-ampoules ↗
Parser version
3
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