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External feeds and internal benchmarking..
Wavedata have historically put data into websites and left customers to login and access this. However, a couple of years ago customers started asking for feeds. These are monthly, weekly, or daily reports showing market prices, and are imported into pharma companies’...
Orlistat Caps 120mg 84 Price Trends
This graph shows Orlistat Caps 120mg 84 over the last 10 years. After a gradual period of decreasing prices, the average UK Price rose to a peak of £27.38 in December 2018. A Concession Price was granted in May 2018 as the price started to rise. Over the past 10...
Etoricoxib Tabs 90mg 28 Price Trends
After a long period of low prices, the average UK Price rose to a peak of £11.96 in May 2021. A Concession Price was granted in March 2021 as the price started to rise.
Paracetamol Caplets 500mg Price Trends
England initiated a national lockdown in March 2020 as Covid-19 began to cause symptoms such as fevers. From March 2020, the average UK price paid by pharmacies and dispensing doctors for Paracetamol Caplets 500mg 100 rose to £2.06.
Procoralan Tabs 5mg 56 vs Ivabradine Tabs 5mg 56
The average price of Procoralan Tabs 5mg 56 stayed at between £34-36 between April 2011 to September 2015, after which the price started to decline and fell to below £30 in July 2018.
Tolbutamide Tabs 500mg 28 Price Trends
The average UK price for this product began to rise in December 2011, and rose from under £5.00 to £21.91. Since then, the average UK price has stayed at around £25.00 until October 2014 when it began to decline, falling to £2.87 in August 2018. Then the price stayed at the £3 mark until April 2019 when it rose to £13.28.
WaveData Basket Report
Are you trying to get additional pharmacy or dispensing accounts to buy more of your products?
With WaveData’s online Basket Report, you can compare a basket of goods available from your organisation with the prices of a basket of goods available from your competitor.
Buprenorphine Transdermal Patches 52.5mcg/hr (3 days/72 hrs) 4
Selling pharmaceutical products into the UK requires knowing where they are being prescribed, what competing products exist and having an understanding of the market. Scriptmap gives you the ability to analyse and understand GP prescriptions.
WaveData Live – Filtering and Sorting Options
Wavedata Live will show you lines of data for specific drugs showing: suppliers, country, date, and price with the ability to filter and sort the data. The screenshot of WaveData Live shown below shows Co-Codamol Caplets 30mg/500mg 100, filtered on Pharmacy and Price...
Valsartan Caps 80mg 28 Price Trends
The market pricing of Valsartan Caps 80mg 28 has followed a 3-year pattern over the last ten years. As we can see from the graph, the three-year pattern looks to become less distinct with time, but we will see if it repeats in 2022.
Brintellix Tabs 10mg 28 Supplier Pricing Information
Brintellix Tabs 10mg 28 has been a highly searched Parallel Import in our WaveData Live database this month.
A slice of data of the Generic Drug- Simvastatin 40mg 28 from WaveData Live
Did you know you can see live UK pharmaceutical generic product price competition online?
Amiloride Tabs 5mg 28’s Three Year Itch
The market pricing of Amiloride Tabs 5mg 28 over the last ten years has been quite unpredictable. With peaks being reached every three years or so, it would have helped manufacturers, wholesalers, and pharmacies if they had kept tabs on this product. If it does this again we can expect price rises in 2023 and 2026.
Average Pharmacy Discount of Generic Products
The wholesaler discount for generic products has traditionally been assumed to be about 15%. However, WaveData thought it would be useful to share the bigger picture of pharmacy discounts for generics.
Average PI Discount Available to Pharmacies in the Run Up to Brexit
The graph published with this article shows the decline in the profits pharmacies could make on the parallel imports they bought in the run-up to Brexit. It demonstrates a profitability decline from around 15% to 13.5%. Which, while not a large drop, could harm pharmacies and damage their ability to continue operations.
Are you trying to get additional pharmacy or dispensing accounts to buy more of your products?
With WaveData’s online Basket Report, you can compare a basket of goods available from your organisation with the prices of a basket of goods available from your competitor.
It’s a bit like comparing a basket of goods from Tesco with one from Sainsbury, but for pharmaceuticals.
Alendronate Tabs 70mg 4 Price Trends
Alendronate Tabs 70mg 4 was launched in March 2005 in competition with Fosamax Once Weekly Tabs 70mg 4.
Carbimazole Tabs 5mg 100 Price Trends
We can see from this graph that before patent expiry something forced the genericised form of the brand (Neo-Mercazole Tabs 5mg 100) to a peak of £91.04 in Oct 2015.
Gabapentin Caps 300mg 100 Price Bounces
The average UK price of Gabapentin Caps 300mg 100 has followed a cyclical pattern over the past 10 years.
Chlorphenamine Tabs 4mg 28 Price Trends
The reason for these Chlorphenamine Tabs 4mg 28 unstable prices could be due to the fact that the 30 pack may be imported from Europe meaning that availability may be difficult.
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