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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/103

Medicine Supply Notification: Co-trimoxazole 40mg/200mg/5ml oral suspension sugar free and Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg/5ml oral suspension - Updated

MSN/2023/103 Tier 3 · high · issued 17 Nov 2023

Co-Trimoxazole has been notified short 3 times since 2023 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2023/103
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
17 Nov 2023
Expected back
mid-March 2024 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 25 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
Co-trimoxazole 40mg/200mg/5ml oral suspension sugar freeaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedearly July 2024precision: early in the month · window end 10 Jul 2024, derived from “early July 2024”notice of 17 Nov 2023
Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg/5ml oral suspensionaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedmid-March 2024precision: mid-month · window end 20 Mar 2024, derived from “mid-March 2024”notice of 17 Nov 2023
Co-trimoxazole 80mg/400mg tablets and 160mg/800mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 17 Nov 2023

What changed

  1. 17 Nov 2023Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 17 Nov 2023Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:b4e176920567

Recorded
25 Feb 2024 02:09 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
25 Feb 2024 02:09 UTC
Content hash
d98d920fe36fa4ffd080398ded706ea69e12f91f678b14c23541e476d4bdcd14
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-co-trimoxazole-40mg-200mg-5ml-oral-suspension-sugar-free ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240225020913id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-co-trimoxazole-40mg-200mg-5ml-oral-suspension-sugar-free ↗
Parser version
3
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