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Named Patient Programmes Yield ROI, Additional Benefits for Pharmaceutical

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NEW YORK and LONDON, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Eularis today announced the release of a first-ever study on the ROI of named patient programmes (NPP), also known as compassionate use programs. The paper, "Implementing a pre-launch named patient programme -- evidence of increased market share," provides pharmaceutical companies with insight and mathematical justification into the cash market share and revenue impact of pre-launch NPPs on brands, while outlining the benefits and challenges that they create.

NPPs provide pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with a way to ethically provide pre-launch medicines available in countries outside of the approved markets. Through these programmes, patients with a genuine unmet medical need are able to access the potentially live-saving medicines before those medicines are licensed and commercially available in their home country. By implementing an NPP, companies increase patient access to new treatment options and in turn create additional revenue opportunities.

While many companies have employed NPPs in an effort to manage patient access, maximize market share and optimize profits, until now, no studies have been conducted reporting on the efficacy of these programmes. In a market environment where an effective launch can result in success or failure of a pharmaceutical, evidence-based strategy is essential to launching and maintaining a successful product. The study reports on the positive ROI and increased launch market share that can be achieved by using NPP programmes pre-launch. The study used a control group of brands that had not used NPP, and matched these with brands that had, across multiple countries and therapeutic categories. The paper also reports on additional non-financial benefits such as product visibility and physician cultivation and relationship developme
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