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National Patient Safety Alert · NatPSA/2025/002/UKHSA

National Patient Safety Alert: Potential contamination of non-sterile alcohol-free skin cleansing wipes with Burkholderia spp: measures to reduce patient risk

NatPSA/2025/002/UKHSA issued 26 Jun 2025

Reference
NatPSA/2025/002/UKHSA
Kind
National Patient Safety Alert
Issued
26 Jun 2025
Recorded changes
1
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 14 Jul 2025 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

What changed

  1. 26 Jun 2025National Patient Safety Alert issuedsource post

Provenance

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post:95cf9d8c168f

Recorded
14 Jul 2025 20:44 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
14 Jul 2025 20:44 UTC
Content hash
4fc1e6b660d21fd61999c16c54c99ddf3a1eeb3524b182929867a2debd1a9470
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-contamination-of-non-sterile-alcohol-free-skin-cleansing-wipes-with-burkholderia-spp-measures-to-reduce-patient-risk ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20250714204449id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-potential-contamination-of-non-sterile-alcohol-free-skin-cleansing-wipes-with-burkholderia-spp-measures-to-reduce-patient-risk ↗
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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