National Patient Safety Alert · NatPSA/2023/011/DHSC

National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage of methylphenidate prolonged-release capsules and tablets, lisdexamfetamine capsules, and guanfacine prolonged-release tablets.

NatPSA/2023/011/DHSC issued 27 Sep 2023

Methylphenidate has been notified short 3 times since 2022 — see the full history →

Reference: NatPSA/2023/011/DHSC
Kind: National Patient Safety Alert
Issued: 27 Sep 2023
Recorded changes: 1
Source: Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 07 Nov 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
Other ADHD productsclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 27 Sep 2023
Limited parallel imports of methylphenidate (Equasym XL®) modified release capsulesparallel import named by the source · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand	— not stated for this line	notice of 27 Sep 2023

What changed

27 Sep 2023National Patient Safety Alert issuedsource 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.

post:8b099a851442

Recorded

07 Nov 2023 18:26 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 Nov 2023 18:26 UTC

Content hash

bc5a5f081f17cc37aaa3a817be7e9cfc2ef86584b0c32c90bc569df24b9eb890

sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct

Source document

https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-of-methylphenidate-prolonged-release-capsules-and-tablets-lisdexamfetamine-capsules-and-guanfacine-prolonged-release-tablets ↗

Archive capture

https://web.archive.org/web/20231107182642id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage-of-methylphenidate-prolonged-release-capsules-and-tablets-lisdexamfetamine-capsules-and-guanfacine-prolonged-release-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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