RE: Boots25 Jun 2023 12:10
bothwell,
i think the reason was because rpg (at the time) had no idea what they were doing. especially after their **** up and amateurism shown regarding can size. since ple were the ones who had obtained the approval for the 20 dose can back in 2013, they had the responsibility of first launch before the sunset date 3 years later in 2016. if you happen to remember. the lock in only happened 3 days before that sunset date (nov 2016) which was because ple had forgotten to agree a can price point with recordati and so had to go with the 20 dose can at the last minute (they could put whatever price they wanted for that as i'm sure it wouldn't impact recordati's own endeavors. i'm sure partly because of this, they were stuck with some small online doctors/pharmacy to make the initial roll out and wanted to leave it all with recordati. there was no way they had the experience or knowhow to take it further and recordati were far too busy sorting out their own list of launches - see below. the result was that the uk was left in the lurch, although i'm sure stocks were changed out for the 12 dose can when they became available, but other than that it was left to its own devices.
recordati's initial responsibility was the e5 followed by a few others as per the nov 2016 announcement...the first batch of fortacin will be on commercial sale, by prescription, in the uk from today. thereafter, regent pacific’s commercial partner recordati s.p.a. is expected to begin sales of fortacin™ in italy, spain, france, germany, portugal (e5), czech republic, slovakia, poland, ireland, romania and greece in 2017.
the uk never even left the starting gate and still hasn't. quite incredible given it was one of the top 3 economies in the eu at the time (portugal and spain were never really players to begin with) so should have been more of a priority, but who knows how the contract was written between rpg/ple and recordati.
the rest is history with the impact of manufacturing problems, which again, rpg should have stepped in years ago to sort out but never did.
lest hope with the otc recordati can pull things together, although at 30k cans/quarter, its going to take a long long time.
if there is anything wrong with the above...tough shti...its all in the past now and depressing to think about......lol
incompetence rules ok........lol