Eli Lilly to hike UK price of Mounjaro weight-loss, diabetes medicines by 170%
Lilly's Mounjaro launched in the UK in February last year, while rival Novo Nordisk's Wegovy treatment has been available in the country since September 2023.
The new price is effective from September. Lilly said that the price for a month's supply of highest dose of the medicine will increase from $122 to £330, a 170% increase.
In the UK, mirroring dynamics elsewhere, especially in the United States, Lilly challenged Novo's first-mover advantage swiftly after launching. By late 2024, Mounjaro sales outstripped those of Wegovy in the booming online pharmacy market for the medicines, Reuters reported at the time.
Lilly said in a statement that when it launched Mounjaro in Britain, it agreed to a list price "significantly below" that in its three other European markets to prevent delays in availability of the medicine through Britain's National Health Service (NHS).
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