Aug 5, 2025
Between 2001 and 2022 the number of generics in the English drug tariff increased from 1682 to 3955. Most of this was driven by increased patient demand and new product launches to cope with this demand. However, more recently the number of products in this...
Jul 23, 2025
Each month WaveData collects the prices of medicines and devices from pharmacies and dispensing doctors. These come from the price lists and invoices sent to these accounts by their suppliers. So what we’re looking at here is the ‘share of voice’ rather than market...
Jul 22, 2025
Each month WaveData collect the prices of brands and generics from pharmacies and dispensing doctors. These come from the price lists and invoices sent to these accounts by their suppliers. This means that what we’re looking at here is the ‘share of voice’ rather than...
Jul 15, 2025
Check out the latest UK Price Watch article in the Generics Bulletin for analysis and insight on May’s product launches, the biggest risers, the biggest fallers and the fastest movers…. with market data provided by WaveData. Dave Wallace editor at Generics Bulletin,...
Jul 10, 2025
Before December 2022 when generics were launched, all prescriptions, branded and generic would have been dispensed as MSD’s Januvia Tabs 100mg 28. This explains why the generic and branded lines on the graph follow the same trend. The green PI average price line...
Jul 10, 2025
Pramipexole Tabs 88mcg 30 is one of those products that suffers regular price bounces. In this case it seems to be almost exactly every two years, which in our minds fits with manufacturing cycles. The generic form of Boehringer Ingelheim’s Mirapexin was launched in...