Sep 27, 2022
Efient was launched in the UK in 2009. This was followed by a two year honeymoon period, which ended in 2011 when the first parallel imports appeared on the UK retail market. For the first three months just one company was selling the Efient PI. However, this grew so...
Sep 22, 2022
Recently we ran a report (also on https://www.wavedata.co.uk/articles ) which showed the long term prices of Efient and Prasugrel Tabs 10mg 28. Today we thought we’d look at the market activity for the same products over the last 10 years. Market activity or...
Sep 20, 2022
Efient Tabs 10mg 28 first appeared in Wavedata’s data, collected from pharmacies and dispensing doctors, in April 2011. Parallel Imports appeared before UK packs, which suggests there was a period during which Efient was sold to pharmacies through linked systems...
Sep 13, 2022
In theory, a product which is due to expire very soon should be offered to pharmacies at a large discount, whereas a product with many months of life remaining should only have a small discount. However, in this analysis and in others we’ve run in the past this...
Jul 21, 2022
The prices that UK pharmacists and dispensing doctors pay for the parallel imports they buy have always been suspected to be correlated with the exchange rate. It would seem sensible to assume that exchange rate would be the primary driver of cross border trade. The...
Jun 27, 2022
Ovestin cream is currently on the DHSC’s list of serious shortages (Serious Shortages Protocols SSPs) giving pharmacists more dispensing flexibility during a shortage. Although this product is in short supply, in June there are still 12 suppliers providing it to...
