The UK Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report

    • Independent 5-year pharmaceutical and healthcare industry forecasts for UK.
    • Original pharmaceutical and healthcare market research and pharmaceutical and healthcare sector trend analysis for the British pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
    • Competitive intelligence, British pharmaceutical and healthcare company rankings and SWOT analyses on international and domestic pharmaceutical and healthcare companies in the British market.

The UK Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report has been researched at source and features the latest available data and forecasts to 2012 covering drugs and healthcare expenditure, the prescription, OTC and generics markets, and foreign trade; company rankings and competitive landscapes including multinational and national drugs companies; and analysis of latest industry news, trends and regulatory developments.

Business Monitor International’s UK Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report provides industry professionals, market investors and corporate and financial services analysts with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on the British pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.

" "Merz Pharmaceuticals uses BMI's Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Reports to support forecasting for European market performance on a mid-term base. Your statements regarding future developments in European pharmaceuticals markets are useful as a plausibility check against our own forecasts." "
Dr. Ralf Weirich, Head BU New Projects / Metabolism M + S International, Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Germany

Key Benefits of Report

    • Benchmark BMI’s Independent 5-year Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industry Forecasts on UK to test other views – a key input for successful budgeting and strategic business planning in the British pharmaceutical and healthcare market.
    • Target Business Opportunities & Risks in the British Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Sector through our reviews of latest industry trends, regulatory changes and major deals, projects and investments in UK.
    • Exploit The Latest Competitive British Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Intelligence & company SWOTS on your competitors and peers through company rankings by sales, market share and ownership structure – includes multi-national and national companies in UK.

Coverage

Executive Summary & Industry SWOT

An at-a-glance perspective on latest regulatory developments, key forecast indicators and major corporate developments, covering the prescription, OTC and generics markets. The SWOT outlines strategic factors which affect BMI’s forecast analysis, and taken together with BMI’s Economic and Business Environment SWOTS, give a complete overview of market climate.

Market Summary

Outline of market characteristics, growth factors, leading therapeutic segments and a competitivness of the market.

Regulatory Regime

Guide to and analysis of country intellectual property developments and pricing & reimbursement issues, which constitute the regulatory make-up of the market.

Industry Developments

Focus on government healthcare reforms, epidemiological trends, company M&As, product launches, market entries, FDI activity, R&D and patent legislation.

BMI 5-Year Industry Forecast

5-Year Forecasts to end-2011 for all key industry indicators (see list below), supported by explicit assumptions, plus analysis of key downside risks to the main forecast, including:

  • Drug market expenditure (US$bn); drug expenditure per capita (US$); as % of gdp
  • Prescription drug market (US$bn)/as % of total market; sales by alimentary tract/metabolism; antibiotics, cardiovascular, central nervous system, oncology, musculoskeletal and respiratory system
  • OTC market (US$bn)/as % of total market (sales by analgesic, cough and cold, digestives, skin treatments, vitamins and minerals)
  • Generics market (US$bn)/ as % of total market
  • Health expenditure (US$bn, % of gdp and per capita); public sector health expenditure as % of total; number of hospitals; beds, hospital admissions, doctors, births and deaths per 000 population

Forecasts based on bespoke BMI economic modelling, using historical data sets of macroeconomic and industry variables to derive rigorous statistical relationships, anchored in advanced linear regression techniques.

BMI 5-Year Macroeconomic Forecasts

BMI forecasts for all headline macroeconomic indicators, including:
Nominal and real GDP, % real GDP growth, % private consumption growth, % industrial output growth, % consumer price index, % GDP price deflator, exports, imports, trade balance, current account balance, foreign direct investment, exchange rate against US$, government expenditure, external debt

Competitive Landscape & Profiles

Intelligence on the market position of major MNC power houses and indigenous companies. BMI profiles key research-based companies. Company SWOTS are provided for all key strategic players, complete with a company activity overview, its leading products and analysis of business opportunities.

BMI's Executive Summary

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The UK has one of the most technologically advanced drug markets in Europe, characterised by a booming research sector and comprehensive medicines coverage. BMI estimates that in 2006, the overall pharmaceuticals sector reached a value of US$26.1bn. However, we believe that it will grow to a value of US$35.2bn by 2012 as the government continues to increase health expenditure.

Indeed in the quarter, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling revealed that UK government expenditure on health will continue to rise over the next four years, but at a slower rate than previously seen. According to BMIÂ's forecasts overall spending will rise by 4% per year bringing the total spent, as a percentage of GDP, to 9.4% by 2012. This is in line with the European average.

In fact, in general news concerning the NHS has been positive recently. In November 2007, it was announced that a budget undershoot for 2007/2008 of GBP1.8bn (US$3.72bn) was expected. The current situation marks a notable turn around from two years ago when the NHS posted an overshoot of GBP547mn (US$1.13bn) and has been made possible by swingeing financial measures.

In company terms, there has been quite a lot of activity amongst UK-based firms. The biggest deal saw GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), EuropeÂ's largest drugmaker, acquire privately held US firm Reliant Pharmaceuticals for US$1.7bn. The US firm specialises in cardiovascular drugs, considered one of the weaker areas in GSKÂ's portfolio. Meanwhile, consumer goods firm Reckitt Benckiser has increased its presence in the OTC sector with the purchase of US company Adams Respiratory Therapeutics (Adams).

Meanwhile, the UK takes fourth place in BMIÂ's revised Business Environment Rankings for the Western European region. We have completely overhauled the methodology giving greater weight to regulatory factors affecting the drug market, while utilising a more nuanced analysis of country-specific economic and political factors. The UKÂ's position derives mainly from its strong intellectual property regime and strong economic and political indicators.

Competitive Landscape for Europe Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare: Sample of Companies Ranked

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Cross-border analysis of regulatory systems comparing the patenting environment, summarising regional pricing and reimbursement factors and monitoring the growth of the Pharmaceuticals sector across the region. Company SWOTs cover leading multinational and national drug companies operating in each market.

Network of European Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Sources

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BMI's Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Reports are based on an extensive network of multilateral organisations, government departments, pharmaceutical & healthcare industry associations, chambers of commerce and company reports. Information sources include:

 

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