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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2021/067

Medicine Supply Notification: Estradiol (Estring®)7.5microgram/24hours vaginal delivery system

MSN/2021/067 Tier 2 · medium · issued 09 Dec 2021

Estradiol has been notified short 13 times since 2021 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2021/067
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
09 Dec 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 29 Nov 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
Estring® 7.5microgram/24hours vaginal delivery systemaffected 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 09 Dec 2021
Alternative estradiol and estriol vaginal productsclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 09 Dec 2021

What changed

  1. 09 Dec 2021Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 09 Dec 2021Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:9bdcf86647d5

Recorded
29 Nov 2023 08:28 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
29 Nov 2023 08:28 UTC
Content hash
a727da213bc0722cf03f8bae05ef1670b1e686b5d7556ba1280553ba32a449c6
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-estradiol-estring7-5microgram-24hours-vaginal-delivery-system ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20231129082833id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-estradiol-estring7-5microgram-24hours-vaginal-delivery-system ↗
Parser version
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