Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/099

Medicine Supply Notification: Bisacodyl (Dulcolax®) 5mg suppositories

MSN/2023/099 Tier 2 · medium · issued 23 Oct 2023

Reference: MSN/2023/099
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 23 Oct 2023
Expected back: w/c 18th December 2023 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes: 2
Source: Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 26 Oct 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.

Presentation	Status, as stated	Expected back, as stated	Stated in
Bisacodyl (Dulcolax®) 5mg suppositoriesaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	w/c 18th December 2023precision: a month · window end 24 Dec 2023, derived from “w/c 18th December 2023”	notice of 23 Oct 2023
Glycerol 2g (children’s size) suppositoriesnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →	Stated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand	— not stated for this line	notice of 23 Oct 2023
Relaxit enemasaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	— not stated for this line	notice of 23 Oct 2023
Micralax micro enemasnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 23 Oct 2023

What changed

23 Oct 2023Supply notification issuedsource post
23 Oct 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: 26 Oct 2023 14:29 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: 26 Oct 2023 14:29 UTC
Content hash: 8e5ff5666ee509602bdd0370a3af5969a604dac6838108b78fdc05b022793b44
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-bisacodyl-dulcolax-5mg-suppositories ↗
Archive capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20231026142909id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-bisacodyl-dulcolax-5mg-suppositories ↗
Parser version: 3

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