biosimilars

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The health service could save up to €1 billion in its medicines budget over the next five years, according to the group representing the sector. Photograph: Getty
HSE could save €200m a year with off-patent drugs – report

(...). Medicines for Ireland says that the use of generics and biosimilars has saved the State €1.6 billion since(...)

Take-up of biosimilars in the Irish health system has been held back by the lack of Government encouragement and inertia among medical practitioners. Photograph: Benis Arapovic/Getty
Paying hospitals to cut the drugs budget

Efforts to pull together a national policy on biosimilars remain stymied somewhere in the(...)

Shot of drug bottles on a conveyor. iStock
State fails to save millions on HSE medicines bill

(...) 2017 to target 50 per cent of prescriptions in hospitals of biosimilars – “copycat”drugs with no(...)

IPHA president GSK’s Aidan Lynch (centre); IPHA vice-president Paul Reid (Pfizer); and Bayer’s Itziar Canamasas with the Manifesto for Better Health ahead of the IPHA annual conference on November 8th. Photograph: Justin Mac Innes
Big Pharma bids to build bridges in Ireland

(...) policy on biosimilars remains just that – a promise. The consultation process is complete, but there is(...)

Industry sources say the State lost between €4 million and €5 million by the delay in reducing the price of Pfizer’s blockbuster arthritis drug Enbrel. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images
Biosimilar drug to save HSE millions of euro this year

(...) medicine is a cheaper identical “copy” of a branded traditional small-molecule drug, biosimilars are “me(...)

The HEA has written to Minister for Health Simon Harris expressing its concern over what it calls the “biosimilar blocker”. Photograph: Dave Meehan
‘Biosimilar blocker’ clause could cost HSE over €50m a year

(...) beginning to see competition from “biosimilars”. Large molecule protein drugs, biologics cannot be precisely(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris: in the letter sent to him the Healthcare Enterprise Alliance says the pricing agreement includes “artificial pricing thresholds”. Photograph: Dave Meehan
Generic drugs lobby criticises new agreement

(...) four years. However, a lobby group representing the makers of generics and “biosimilars” – copies of(...)

The headquarters of Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, Germany. Photographer: Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg
Germany’s Merck stakes out ground in fledgling biosimilars market

(...) of competition.Karl-Ludwig Kley, chief executive of the German group, said he expected “biosimilars(...)