Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2025/016

Medicine Supply Notification: Megestrol (Megace®) 160mg tablets

MSN/2025/016 Tier 2 · medium · issued 25 Mar 2025

Reference: MSN/2025/016
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 25 Mar 2025
Expected back: mid-April 2025 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes: 2
Source: Announcement post ↗

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
Megestrol (Megace®) 160mg tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	mid-April 2025precision: mid-month · window end 20 Apr 2025, derived from “mid-April 2025”	notice of 25 Mar 2025
Medroxyprogesterone (Provera®) 200mg and 400mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 25 Mar 2025
Medroxyprogesterone (Provera®) 100mg tabletsnamed 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 25 Mar 2025

What changed

25 Mar 2025Supply notification issuedsource post
25 Mar 2025Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:7570a9e1c624

Recorded

12 Jul 2026 14:46 UTC

Capture route

Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check

Read from

Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)

Captured at

12 Jul 2026 14:46 UTC

Content hash

bb3a0060e829706b11cef5c8b5e59b97929c7c7aa9f29fe88760fc6df1e3dee6

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-megestrol-megace-160mg-tablets ↗

Parser version

Source anomalies

multiple statuses on one line (['available_no_uplift', 'available']) — recorded 'available_no_uplift' (source line omitted; see the source document)

as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected

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