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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/082

Medicine Supply Notification: Estradiol (Estradot® ) 25micrograms/24 hours, 37.5micrograms/24 hours and 100micrograms/24 hours transdermal patches

MSN/2023/082 Tier 2 · medium · issued 23 Aug 2023

Estradiol has been notified short 13 times since 2021 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2023/082
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
23 Aug 2023
Expected back
late September 2023 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 30 Aug 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
Estradiol (Estradot®) 25micrograms/24hours, 37.5micrograms/24hours, 100micrograms/24hours transdermal patchesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedlate September 2023precision: late in the month · window end 30 Sep 2023, derived from “late September 2023”notice of 23 Aug 2023
Alternative brands of estradiol patches (Evorel® and Estraderm MX®)named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 23 Aug 2023

What changed

  1. 23 Aug 2023Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 23 Aug 2023Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:351f86a07035

Recorded
30 Aug 2023 15:03 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
30 Aug 2023 15:03 UTC
Content hash
326dad90eeca3a94242d204b60e630ca3f73d9377a821af51b7647dd17516d2a
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-24-hours-37-5micrograms-24-hours-and-100micrograms-24-hours-transdermal-patches ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20230830150349id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-estradiol-estradot-25micrograms-24-hours-37-5micrograms-24-hours-and-100micrograms-24-hours-transdermal-patches ↗
Parser version
3
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