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National Patient Safety Alert · NatPSA/2025/006/NHSPS

National Patient Safety Alert: Harm from incorrect recording of a penicillin allergy as a penicillamine allergy

NatPSA/2025/006/NHSPS issued 20 Nov 2025

Reference
NatPSA/2025/006/NHSPS
Kind
National Patient Safety Alert
Issued
20 Nov 2025
Recorded changes
1
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 07 Dec 2025 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

What changed

  1. 20 Nov 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:32e623ffeaa7

Recorded
07 Dec 2025 07:45 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 Dec 2025 07:45 UTC
Content hash
c373182e13c77f2f21f3b91d73706a1c3ddfe6eef8d0f8382eaca0927a2215ef
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-harm-from-incorrect-recording-of-a-penicillin-allergy-as-a-penicillamine-allergy ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20251207074511id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-harm-from-incorrect-recording-of-a-penicillin-allergy-as-a-penicillamine-allergy ↗
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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