New Market Report: Germany Pharmaceutical Market Overview

New Pharmaceuticals market report from Datamonitor: "Germany Pharmaceutical Market Overview - New pricing rules set to negatively impact drug sales both domestically and internationally"
 
March 16, 2011 - PRLog -- The German prescription pharmaceutical market was valued at $38.3 bn in 2009, with an annual growth rate of 4.4% between 2008 and 2009. However, future market growth will be hampered by the newly introduced price negotiation requirements in addition to raised rebates for patent protected drugs, with an impact on other countries that use Germany as a reference market.
Features and benefits

* Overview of socioeconomic and demographic trends, healthcare system, regulation, pricing and reimbursement and intellectual property in Germany
* Assesses the size of the Germany pharmaceutical market by prescribing setting, therapy area, leading brands and by leading companies
* Examines the Germany generics and biosimilars landscape in terms of regulatory issues, level of penetration, key players and degree of brand erosion
* Quantifies the R&D and manufacturing infrastructure for the leading pharmaceutical companies, including key metrics and domestic M&A analysis

Highlights

Low birth rate in Germany has led to a demographic crisis prompting the need for social security reforms despite the country's swift recovery from the economic downturn. Cuts are impacting the healthcare sector with pharmaceuticals also feeling the sting.New drug price negotiation requirements will give more leverage to health insurance funds. With an expected downward pressure on price, the impact will be felt domestically as well as internationally.Generics uptake is already high and the latest cost-containment measures including tendering contracts for generics have led to downward pricing spirals, negatively impacting the domestic generics industry. Biosimilars are also gaining ground and are becoming a real threat for biologics producers.
Your key questions answered

* Evaluate the evolving regulatory landscape and the impact of pricing and reimbursement controls on market access in Germany
* Quantify the size and growth of the prescription pharmaceutical market in Germany, analyzing key therapy areas, brands and companies
* Assess drivers and resistors of generic and biosimilars uptake in Germany


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Partial Table of Contents:

Executive Summary
Introduction
Strategic scoping and focus
Key findings
Germany - Socio-demographic and economic analysis
Germany - Healthcare system and drug regulatory analysis
Germany - Prescription pharmaceutical sales analysis
Germany - Drug expiry analysis
Germany - Drug Industry Infrastructure analysis
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2. GERMANY - SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Germany - Key findings
Socio-demographic trends
Socioeconomic trends
Germany - Demographic trends
Germany's population is declining leading to a potential demographic crisis
The birth rate in Germany is among the lowest in all major markets
Proportion of elderly individuals and life expectancy
Germany - Disease burden
Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death in Germany
Death rate from smoking-related diseases in Germany is high
Germany has the largest diabetic population in the EU
Germany - Political climate
The 2009 election resulted in changes in the ruling coalition government
Germany - Economic climate
Germany is recovering well from the global economic crisis, but economic divisions remain
Germany's budget deficit is projected to reach almost 4.5% of GDP in 2010
Germany - Business environment
Corporate income tax is reasonable in Germany
Germany receives significant inward foreign direct investment
The unemployment rate is expected to continue to rise post-recession
3. GERMANY - HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND DRUG REGULATORY ANALYSIS
Germany - Key findings
Healthcare expenditure
Insurance and healthcare system
Regulatory issues
Pricing and reimbursement
Germany - Healthcare expenditure
Germany has a higher than OECD average healthcare spend per capita, but spends less of its total healthcare expenditure on pharmaceuticals
Germany - Insurance and healthcare system
The statutory health insurance system dominates healthcare provision in Germany
Private health insurance consists of comprehensive and supplementary schemes
A raft of healthcare reforms have taken place in Germany
Pharma hopes the reforms will dismantle the AOK monopoly
Primary care versus hospital care in Germany
Germany - Regulatory issues
The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Products is the national drugs regulatory body in Germany
Drug approval and regulatory processes in Germany
Drugs typically launch in Germany following the US
Intellectual property - patents are valid for 20 years from date of application in Germany
Data exclusivity issues in Germany: the 8+2+1 rule
Drug counterfeiting: Germany is one of the worst hit markets in Europe
Germany is a big parallel importer
Germany - Pricing and reimbursement
Key bodies influencing pricing and reimbursement in Germany
Germany has implemented a number of health system reforms
Pricing issues
Reimbursement issues
4. GERMANY - PRESCRIPTION PHARMACEUTICAL SALES ANALYSIS
Germany - Key findings
Pharmaceutical market size
Leading therapy areas
Leading pharmaceutical brands
Leading pharmaceutical companies
Germany - Pharmaceutical market size
Germany - Leading therapy areas
CNS drugs held the largest share of the German market value

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