HC Deb 03 December 1968 vol 774 cc449-50W
Mr. Pavitt

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the top 10 companies supplying the National Health Service with prescription medicines and their percentage share of this market in 1962 and 1967.

Mr. Ennals

The information available is of proprietary drugs prescribed on Form E.C.10 including prescriptions made out in the generic name but for which only a proprietary product is available. The list, on this basis, derived from a sample of prescriptions is as follows:

Company Percentage of total value of proprietary drugs prescribed in
1967 1962
Merck, Sharp and Dohme Ltd. 9.4 4.1
Glaxo Group Ltd. (including Allen & Hanburys and Duncan, Flockhart & Evans) 6.8 6.6
Beecham Group Ltd. 6.5 2.8
Roche Products Ltd 5.8 2.6
Pfizer Ltd. 4.6 8.8
Geigy (U.K.) Ltd. 4.2 4.1
Wyeth, John and Brother Ltd. 3.6 3.8
Smith, Kline and French Labs. 3.5 4.7
Bayer Products Company 3.4 3.8
Cyanamid of Great Britain Ltd. 3.4 8.9