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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2024/081

Medicine Supply Notification: Desmopressin (DDAVP®) 4 micrograms/1ml solution for injection ampoules

MSN/2024/081 Tier 2 · medium · issued 01 Aug 2024

Desmopressin has been notified short 3 times since 2021 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2024/081
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
01 Aug 2024
Expected back
w/c 16th September 2024 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 07 Aug 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
Desmopressin (DDAVP®) 4 micrograms/1ml solution for injection ampoulesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedw/c 16th September 2024precision: a month · window end 22 Sep 2024, derived from “w/c 16th September 2024”notice of 01 Aug 2024

What changed

  1. 01 Aug 2024Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 01 Aug 2024Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:ca00c3b1ccc8

Recorded
07 Aug 2024 01:58 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
07 Aug 2024 01:58 UTC
Content hash
4bacee28fee73a1ae6da5bfec52a724e315167de62da48b7e247511e56ef5bd8
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-desmopressin-ddavp-4-micrograms-1ml-solution-for-injection-ampoules ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240807015839id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-desmopressin-ddavp-4-micrograms-1ml-solution-for-injection-ampoules ↗
Parser version
3
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