Amoxicillin Market Price Increases

Amoxicillin Market Price Increases

Infections with the Group A Streptococcus (GAS ) are very common at the moment and can cause Scarlet Fever. This mainly affects children and Amoxicillin is the most common treatment.  However, the availability of and prices of Amoxicillin products for pharmacies and...
Branded Generics and True Generics

Branded Generics and True Generics

In recent years branded generics, which are branded versions of off-patent medicines other than the originator, have been included in the VPAS Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing. This has meant that the manufacturers of branded generics have had to return...
Predicting Branded Product Shortages

Predicting Branded Product Shortages

Wavedata have looked in depth at generic product shortages, but have not so far examined branded product shortages in any depth. Therefore we looked at the ABPI’s serious shortage protocol (SSPS) list published on their website each month and chose the list of...
Parallel Imports and how quickly they appear and disappear

Parallel Imports and how quickly they appear and disappear

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...