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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2022/072

Medicine Supply Notification: Methylprednisolone (Medrone®) 4mg tablets

MSN/2022/072 Tier 2 · medium · issued 25 Aug 2022

Methylprednisolone has been notified short 2 times since 2022 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2022/072
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
25 Aug 2022
Expected back
mid-January 2023 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 01 Mar 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
Methylprednisolone (Medrone®) 4mg tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedmid-January 2023precision: mid-month · window end 20 Jan 2023, derived from “mid-January 2023”notice of 25 Aug 2022
Methylprednisolone (Medrone®) 2mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 25 Aug 2022
Prednisolone tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →Stated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 25 Aug 2022

What changed

  1. 25 Aug 2022Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 25 Aug 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:71c6b1a30d59

Recorded
01 Mar 2024 08:06 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
01 Mar 2024 08:06 UTC
Content hash
42b1851789926be7ee6bad500445fa50ceb00ddff769399fb9ec6c1d761c9d7a
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-medrone-4mg-tablets ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240301080626id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-methylprednisolone-medrone-4mg-tablets ↗
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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