A variety of financial and non-financial incentives are intended to encourage generic prescribing. Physician budgets are used by Germany and UK and seem to encourage generic prescribing. Assistance in terms of electronic prescribing, medicines databases, audit and feedback on prescribing data, guidelines and formularies tend to be voluntary and have a limited impact. Denmark and the UK teach medical students to prescribe by INN rather than brand name. Portugal requires prescription by INN if a generic product exists. Physicians see this as a restriction on their prescribing freedom in Belgium and France and resist such moves.
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- FDA approves generic teriparatide and levetiracetam
- US generics launch and approval for Dr Reddy’s and Lupin
- Five Chinese companies join UN’s MPP for Covid-19 medicines
- South Korean companies to make generic Bridion and COVID-19 drugs
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- Community pharmacists’ understanding of generic and biosimilar drugs: Lebanon case study
- Reshaping landscape of Japanese generics market – uncertain future of universal health insurance
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