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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/009

Medicine Supply Notification: Estradiol (Estradot ® ) 25micrograms/24hours, 50micrograms/24hours and 100micrograms/24hours patches

MSN/2023/009 Tier 2 · medium · issued 03 Feb 2023

Estradiol has been notified short 13 times since 2021 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2023/009
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
03 Feb 2023
Expected back
w/c 13th February 2023 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 21 Feb 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
Estradiol (Estradot®) 25microgram/24hours patchesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedw/c 13th February 2023precision: a month · window end 19 Feb 2023, derived from “w/c 13th February 2023”notice of 03 Feb 2023
Estradiol (Estradot®) 50microgram/24hours patchesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedw/c 20th February 2023precision: a month · window end 26 Feb 2023, derived from “w/c 20th February 2023”notice of 03 Feb 2023
Estradiol (Estradot®) 100microgram/24hours patchesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedw/c 13th February 2023precision: a month · window end 19 Feb 2023, derived from “w/c 13th February 2023”notice of 03 Feb 2023

What changed

  1. 03 Feb 2023Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 03 Feb 2023Expected 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.

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Recorded
21 Feb 2024 11:13 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
21 Feb 2024 11:13 UTC
Content hash
0fcf5b0a97e36c52028279e7af47ec1b6f2d6a793452351c483dd714afc7f7c1
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-estradot-25micrograms-24hours-50micrograms-24hours-and-100micrograms-24hours-patches ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240221111341id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-estradiol-estradot-25micrograms-24hours-50micrograms-24hours-and-100micrograms-24hours-patches ↗
Parser version
3
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