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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/062

Medicine Supply Notification: Paracetamol suppositories

MSN/2023/062 Tier 2 · medium · issued 29 Jun 2023

Paracetamol has been notified short 3 times since 2022 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2023/062
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
29 Jun 2023
Expected back
w/c 10th July 2023 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 01 Jul 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
Paracetamol 60mg suppositoriesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedw/c 1st April 2024precision: a month · window end 07 Apr 2024, derived from “w/c 1st April 2024”notice of 29 Jun 2023
Paracetamol 125mg suppositoriesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedOctober 2023precision: a month · window end 31 Oct 2023, derived from “October 2023”notice of 29 Jun 2023
Paracetamol 240mg suppositoriesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedw/c 10th July 2023precision: a month · window end 16 Jul 2023, derived from “w/c 10th July 2023”notice of 29 Jun 2023
Paracetamol 250mg suppositoriesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedOctober 2023precision: a month · window end 31 Oct 2023, derived from “October 2023”notice of 29 Jun 2023
Paracetamol 120mg suppositoriesnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 29 Jun 2023
Paracetamol 500mg and 1000mg suppositories (Typharm)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 29 Jun 2023

What changed

  1. 29 Jun 2023Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 29 Jun 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.

post:28faf3b05c44

Recorded
01 Jul 2023 10:42 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 Jul 2023 10:42 UTC
Content hash
f7ee13ed060ce67836b517f098cefd65079ccf831c20c1504da0ab58d7975785
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-paracetamol-suppositories ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20230701104207id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-paracetamol-suppositories ↗
Parser version
3
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