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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2022/027

Medicine Supply Notification: Oxybutynin (Kentera®) 3.9mg/24hour transdermal patches.

MSN/2022/027 Tier 2 · medium · issued 16 Mar 2022

Oxybutynin has been notified short 4 times since 2022 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2022/027
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
16 Mar 2022
Expected back
w/c 30th May 2022 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 17 Jul 2024 — 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
Oxybutynin (Kentera®) 3.9mg/24hour transdermal patchesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedw/c 30th May 2022precision: a month · window end 05 Jun 2022, derived from “w/c 30th May 2022”notice of 16 Mar 2022
Oxybutynin (Lyrinel XL®) 5mg and 10mg modified-release tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 16 Mar 2022
Alternative medicines for urinary disordersclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 16 Mar 2022

What changed

  1. 16 Mar 2022Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 16 Mar 2022Expected backsource post

Provenance

Where this record's bytes came from and when they entered the record. The same fields ship with every API record (/api), so a citation can be checked against the capture. Internet-Archive recoveries are dated by the Archive's capture, never ours.

post:96b94840c2f2

Recorded
17 Jul 2024 21:04 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
17 Jul 2024 21:04 UTC
Content hash
a10103e1b03a9465f3ed9a7fafe479636fc8c6c746dcfbfc6377dd4da549673b
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- ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240717210418id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification- ↗
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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