Feb 6, 2024
The newly launched NHS Pharmacy First service recommends that uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women be treated with antibiotics by pharmacies. However, are these critical products profitable for pharmacies to buy and dispense? Wavedata decided to look at...
Jan 30, 2024
We were chatting about shortages with some peers last week at the HDA conference. This got us playing devil’s advocate, how would we create a shortage? Firstly, we’d cut the reimbursement price of a commonly used generic product to a fraction of its...
Jan 22, 2024
VPAG and Older Medicines The Department of Health and Social Care DHSC has for many years being receiving a rebate from the manufacturers of branded prescribed drugs. This is intended to keep a cap on the growth in the medicines bill whilst allowing manufacturers to...
Dec 6, 2023
WaveData’s MD, Charles Joynson looks at generic products sold in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales, in August, September and October of this year, focusing in on the top 500 most commonly advertised products. We only included products which were...
Nov 30, 2023
Wavedata looked at the average prices of generic products sold to pharmacies and dispensing doctors between August and October 2023 and compared this with the number of price list offers for the same products in the same time period. It would seem sensible to assume...
Nov 22, 2023
The first generic versions of Zonisamide Caps 25mg 14 were launched after loss of exclusivity in November 2015. However, in the run-up to this, the prices being offered to pharmacists and dispensing doctors for the brand declined from about £8.00 to about £7.40. This...
