National Patient Safety Alert · NatPSA/2025/004/MVA

National Patient Safety Alert: Shortage of Antimicrobial Agents Used in Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment

NatPSA/2025/004/MVA issued 29 Jul 2025

Antimicrobial Agents Used In Tuberculosis has been notified short 2 times since 2025 — see the full history →

Reference: NatPSA/2025/004/MVA
Kind: National Patient Safety Alert
Issued: 29 Jul 2025
Recorded changes: 1
Source: Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 19 Aug 2025 — 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
Ethambutol tablets, Isoniazid tablets, and Rifinah® 150 tablets (rifampicin 150 mg / isoniazid 100 mg) and Mycobutin® (rifabutin) 150mg capsulesnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand	— not stated for this line	notice of 29 Jul 2025

What changed

29 Jul 2025National 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:9efd4e2129e8

Recorded

19 Aug 2025 01:19 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

19 Aug 2025 01:19 UTC

Content hash

bb2eb2478fe9b69878e3fdc7c20bc645cab0bb395517442fd9cc08cf589dc3b4

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

Source document

http://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage- ↗

Archive capture

https://web.archive.org/web/20250819011945id_/http://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-shortage- ↗

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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