Adherence Solutions

Proprietary packaging that improves patient adherence 

Catalent offers a suite of breakthrough solutions that help drive proper patient adherence – a big challenge in today’s industry.

Today 30% of prescriptions are not refilled*, and when a patient fails to take a medication as instructed, there may be adverse consequences - not only for the patient, but also for the manufacturer of the medication. In fact, unintentional noncompliance - the stoppage or misuse of prescription medication due to inconvenience, forgetfulness, or confusion - accounts for nearly $8 billion in lost revenue each year**.

Benefits

• Design capabilities
  • Extensive in-house package design, prototyping, and tooling expertise that allows us to quickly conceive, test, and pilot innovative packaging solutions
  • Experience in designing adherence-prompting packaging that allows us to customize innovative solutions to meet your challenges regarding:
    • Cost and equipment
    • Design and patient adherence solutions 
    • Ease of use 
    • Dispensing 
• Quality systems
  • Reliable supply to your specifications
• Scale
  • Our infrastructure and site-to-site connectivity that allows us to support multi-regional commercialization
• Safety
  • Child-resistant safety locks
  • Senior-friendly openings 
• Convenience
  • Unit-dose packaging for new forms
  • New usage occasions, such as topical deliveries
  • Ease of use and improved dispensing 
• Optimal treatment effects from better adherence

Catalent Services

We have numerous services that support unique adherence solutions:

• Design capabilities
  • Extensive in-house package design
  • Prototyping and tooling expertise
  • Ability to quickly conceive, test, and pilot innovative solutions
  • Wide selection of standard, cost-effective options
• Customized service
  • Personalized adherence packaging
  • Meet customer’s specific challenges
  • Design options for different markets (e.g., children, seniors, animals, etc. ) 
• Quality system
  • Inspection-ready daily
  • Customer and regulatory audits
  • Zero regulatory enforcement actions, zero recalls, zero repeat field alerts
• Scale
  • Multi-regional commercialization supported by our site-to-site connectivity 
  • Extension of your geographic footprint through our global infrastructure

Catalent Offerings

We have numerous proprietary solutions that can help improve your refill rates and, therefore, treatment outcomes.

• Rx Barrier+^™ - a simple, one-step dispensing package that protect's dosage by plastic 
  • Ideal for small-sized, hardshell tablets
  • Configurable up to 90 doses 
  • Self-seating thumb feature - child resistant and senior friendly
  • Ideal for titration and starter kit
  • HCPC Innovative Compliance Package Of the Year 2006
  • Chosen by a large pharmaceutical manufacturer over Intuidose™ and Dosepak^® due to ease of use and sophisticated design
• HingePak^® - delivers the highest child-resistant features while being senior-friendly
  • Ideal for titration, samples, starter kits, and monthly packs
  • Configurable for unit dose or weekly/monthly treatments
  • Utilizes conventional equipment - does not require specialty assembly or sealing equipment
  • Highest-rated child-resistant features while still adult friendly
  • Integrated patient guidance booklet
  • Media Enhanced Packaging™ available
• PillCalendar™ - daily-dose delivery system in a compact design
  • Innovative opening feature that combines compact package design with adherence
  • Unit of use/unit dose dispensing
  • Senior-friendly format shown to increase medication adherence***

Facilities

With fully compliant facilities situated globally to meet your manufacturing needs, we continue to be a market leader in matching innovative treatments with proprietary unit-dose delivery systems.

• Swindon, U.K. (2 hours northeast of Heathrow)
• Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
• Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.

*Source: BCG/Harris Interactive Study. PlanetRx/Datamonitor Study. Internal calculation based on reported data that 25% of noncompliance can be associated with nondrug or market factors, i.e., unintentional noncompliance.

**Source: HCPC Europe – Healthcare Quarterly

***Source: An Ohio State University College of Pharmacy research study comparing a traditional bottle package to a Catalent blister card package, (PillCalendar™) showed a 4% increase in on-time refills and a 30% increase in therapeutic efficacy. Participants on chronic cardiovascular medication packaged in the PillCalendar™ experienced 49% reduction in blood pressure versus 18% in control group. [Schneider PJ, Murphy JE, Pedersen CA. Impact of medication packaging on adherence and treatment outcomes in older ambulatory patients. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2008;48 (1):58-63. Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, Compliance Tracking Study, 88 patients per study arm tracked over 2 years.]

Intuidose™ is a trademark of Anderson Packaging, Inc.

Dosepak^® is a registered trademark of Westvaco Corp.