Mar 4, 2022
Price bounces happen after the originator product (Migard Tabs 2.5mg 6 in this case) loses its exclusivity (LOE) and generics have been launched. The market price of the generic can fall very quickly if there are lots of generic licence holders. However, where product...
Sep 24, 2021
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...
May 21, 2021
Here we can see Procoralan Tabs 5mg 56 vs Ivabradine Tabs 5mg 56. The generic launch date of Ivabradine was April 2018. The average price of Procoralan Tabs 5mg 56 stayed at between £34-36 between April 2011 to September 2015, after which the price started to decline...
Dec 22, 2020
We can see from this graph that before patent expiry something forced the genericised form of the brand (Neo-Mercazole Tabs 5mg 100) to a peak of £91.04 on average, with the drug tariff reaching £109 in October 2015. However, the launch of generics in August 2015 and...
Nov 20, 2020
Wavedata are frequently asked to perform bespoke analyses of our pricing data. This reflects the prices paid for medical supplies by pharmacies and dispensing doctors, with data going as far back to the year 2000. One example of the type of reports we can run is...
Oct 23, 2020
Zonisamide 50mg 56 Tablets was launched in May 2017 in competition with Eisai brand Zonegran. Since the launch of Zonisamide, the prices for this competitive generic have fallen from the average UK price of £35.80 in May 2017 to £7.09 in November 2018. Alongside this,...
