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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2022/038

Medicine Supply Notification: Estriol (Ovestin® ) 1mg cream

MSN/2022/038 Tier 2 · medium · issued 03 May 2022

Estriol has been notified short 2 times since 2022 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2022/038
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
03 May 2022
Recorded changes
1
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 23 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
Alternative hormone replacement therapiesclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 03 May 2022MSN/2022/038
two additional SSP’snamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this lineupdate of 24 May 2022MSN/2022/038
Alternative hormone replacement therapiesclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 03 May 2022MSN/2022/038

What changed

  1. 03 May 2022Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 03 May 2022Supply notification issuedsource post
  3. 24 May 2022Notification updatedsource 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:25af2e0ce04dMedicine Supply Notification: Estriol (Ovestin® ) 1mg cream - Updated

Recorded
17 Jun 2024 13:20 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 Jun 2024 13:20 UTC
Content hash
549115217a0f5160ce603f369fad81fa95ad0250c09286cc8b6b05d63281a4c3
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-estriol-ovestin-1mg-cream-2 ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240617132018id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-estriol-ovestin-1mg-cream-2 ↗
Parser version
3

post:55594ba527f0Medicine Supply Notification: Estriol (Ovestin® ) 1mg cream

Recorded
23 Jul 2024 03:11 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
23 Jul 2024 03:11 UTC
Content hash
4ef68b7cdcf1d03c5eca83d8b29590a20db0ecdc2e265165f7933101674a4433
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-estriol-ovestin-1mg-cream ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240723031138id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-estriol-ovestin-1mg-cream ↗
Parser version
3
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