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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2021/068

Medicine Supply Notification: Methylprednisolone acetate (Depo-Medrone® ) 40mg/ml vials and methylprednisolone acetate (Depo-Medrone® ) with lidocaine 1% 40mg/ml and 80mg/2ml vials

MSN/2021/068 Tier 2 · medium · issued 14 Dec 2021

Reference
MSN/2021/068
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
14 Dec 2021
Expected back
late February 2022 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 28 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
Depo-Medrone® 40mg/ml vialsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedlate February 2022precision: late in the month · window end 28 Feb 2022, derived from “late February 2022”notice of 14 Dec 2021
Depo-Medrone® 80mg/2ml and 120mg/3ml vialsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 14 Dec 2021
Depo-Medrone® with lidocaine 1% 40mg/ml vialsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedearly February 2022precision: early in the month · window end 10 Feb 2022, derived from “early February 2022”notice of 14 Dec 2021
80mg/2ml vialsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedlate February 2022precision: late in the month · window end 28 Feb 2022, derived from “late February 2022”notice of 14 Dec 2021
Lidocaine 1% injectionnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →Stated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 14 Dec 2021
Alternative licensed injectable steroids alsoclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 14 Dec 2021

What changed

  1. 14 Dec 2021Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 14 Dec 2021Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:36a22b46f283

Recorded
28 Nov 2023 13:56 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
28 Nov 2023 13:56 UTC
Content hash
27afdb88ffe147c541147007d6dcb40007632e0ba07bf83dff055504df9964a8
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-methylprednisolone-acetate-depo-medrone-40mg-ml-vials-and-methylprednisolone-acetate-depo-medrone-with-lidocaine-1-40mg-ml-and-80mg-2ml-vials ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20231128135604id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-methylprednisolone-acetate-depo-medrone-40mg-ml-vials-and-methylprednisolone-acetate-depo-medrone-with-lidocaine-1-40mg-ml-and-80mg-2ml-vials ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • multiple statuses on one line (['available_no_uplift', 'available']) — recorded 'available_no_uplift' (source line omitted; see the source document)
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
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