Price Decline in Liquid Formulations

Price Decline in Liquid Formulations

Metformin Oral Solution S/F 500mg/5ml 150ml and Metformin Oral Solution 500mg/5ml 150ml are the two liquid formulations most frequently searched for in our live pricing service Wavedata Live in November. This service allows users to interrogate the current prices...
Northern Irish medical product supply

Northern Irish medical product supply

In the absence of any acceptable UK EU deal on the supply of medical products to Northern Ireland, the number of price list offers for both generics and parallel imports, as measured by Wavedata, are continuing to decline rapidly. In September 2021 wholesalers and...
Price Decline

Price Decline

Wavedata looked at the decline in the market price for generics launched since 2012 and compared this with the number of generic manufacturers shown in the price lists they collect. A total of 186 products were analysed, and any generic manufacturer or licence holder...
What happens when a product loses its patent protection?

What happens when a product loses its patent protection?

Here is a good example of what happens when a product loses its patent protection. The first point is that the UK price, the price pharmacies and dispensing doctors would pay, has remained fairly consistent over the last 10 years. This is apart from a few sudden dips...