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National Patient Safety Alert · NatPSA/2023/016/DHSC

National Patient Safety Alert: Potential for inappropriate dosing of insulin when switching insulin degludec (Tresiba®) products

NatPSA/2023/016/DHSC issued 08 Dec 2023

Reference
NatPSA/2023/016/DHSC
Kind
National Patient Safety Alert
Issued
08 Dec 2023
Recorded changes
1
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 15 Dec 2023 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

What changed

  1. 08 Dec 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:cc020f1c9d81

Recorded
15 Dec 2023 09:25 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
15 Dec 2023 09:25 UTC
Content hash
1d843d514c00772dca5419d4c7966e182a7e4b6e6933c5a8d5beb0d6cbf977dd
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-potential-for-inappropriate-dosing-of-insulin-when-switching-insulin-degludec-tresiba-products ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20231215092541id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-potential-for-inappropriate-dosing-of-insulin-when-switching-insulin-degludec-tresiba-products ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • no product/status lines recognised
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
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