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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/089

Medicine Supply Notification: Somatropin (Genotropin® MiniQuick) 0.6mg, 1.4mg and (Genotropin® GoQuick) 5.3mg powder and solvent for solution for injection pre-filled disposable devices - Update

MSN/2023/089 Tier 2 · medium · issued 21 Sep 2023

Somatropin has been notified short 2 times since 2023 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2023/089
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
21 Sep 2023
Expected back
w/c 12th February 2024 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 21 Dec 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
Somatropin (Genotropin® MiniQuick) 0.6mg powder and solvent for solution for injection pre-filled disposable devicesaffected product · inferred from phrasingLimited supply, as statedw/c 12th February 2024precision: a month · window end 18 Feb 2024, derived from “w/c 12th February 2024”notice of 21 Sep 2023
Somatropin (Genotropin® MiniQuick) 1.4mg powder and solvent for solution for injection pre-filled disposable (single dose) devicesaffected product · inferred from phrasingLimited supply, as statedw/c 26th February 2024precision: a month · window end 03 Mar 2024, derived from “w/c 26th February 2024”notice of 21 Sep 2023
Somatropin (Genotropin® GoQuick) 5.3mg powder and solvent for solution for injection pre-filled, multi-dose pensaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedw/c 25th March 2024precision: a month · window end 31 Mar 2024, derived from “w/c 25th March 2024”notice of 21 Sep 2023

What changed

  1. 21 Sep 2023Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 21 Sep 2023Expected backsource post

Provenance

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Recorded
21 Dec 2023 22:18 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 Dec 2023 22:18 UTC
Content hash
82051ed82db4f0e24f1f2afa406d38e9b9713cf60e54bfaddd71edaeb06d079d
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-somatropin-genotropin-miniquick-1-4mg-1-6mg-and-1-8mg-powder-and-solvent-for-solution-for-injection-pre-filled-disposable-devices ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20231221221814id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-somatropin-genotropin-miniquick-1-4mg-1-6mg-and-1-8mg-powder-and-solvent-for-solution-for-injection-pre-filled-disposable-devices ↗
Parser version
3
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