National Patient Safety Alert · NatPSA/2023/006/DHSC

National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage of Pyridostigmine 60mg tablets

NatPSA/2023/006/DHSC issued 24 May 2023

Reference: NatPSA/2023/006/DHSC
Kind: National Patient Safety Alert
Issued: 24 May 2023
Recorded changes: 1
Source: Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 30 May 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
Pyridostigmine 60mg tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	— not stated for this line	notice of 24 May 2023

What changed

24 May 2023National Patient Safety Alert issuedsource post

Provenance

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Recorded: 30 May 2023 15:48 UTC (Internet Archive capture)
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Capture route: Recovered from the Internet Archive — not first-hand capture
Read from: Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)
Captured at: 30 May 2023 15:48 UTC
Content hash: e0d5255b8e085c838625ebdca70b575b14a951a43f6713670a166496bbef8618
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Source document: https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-of-pyridostigmine-60mg-tablets ↗
Archive capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20230530154829id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-of-pyridostigmine-60mg-tablets ↗
Parser version: 3

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