HYLO®
Keeping an Eye on What Really Matters!
With HYLO®, you don’t have to sacrifice patient welfare to help save on prescribing budgets, so you can keep an eye on what really matters.
See how HYLO-Tear and HYLO-Forte compare with other seemingly ‘cost saving’ eye lubricants in terms of:
i) Average duration of scripts and
ii) Annual costs to a PCN per patient:


Avoiding a 360o Switch
Real world PCN experience has shown that switching away from HYLO to other lower ‘cost saving’ eye lubricants has resulted in a switch back to HYLO’s due to increased usage and patient feedback.
Barnsley CCG: Switched from HYLO Forte to Evolve HA
Area Prescribing Committee minutes:
March 2019 – ‘The Lead Pharmacist, BHNFT had received 2 new product applications for preservative free Evolve preparations which were significantly more cost effective. As this was a brand switch and not a new product, the Committee agreed that the Evolve® Carmellose Eye Drops and Evolve® Hypromellose Eye Drops would be added to the Dry Eye Guideline, currently being reviewed. The Dry Eye Guidance would be brought to the next APC meeting and on approval; these products would be added to the formulary.’ Source
September 2019 – ‘The Head of Medicines Optimisation provided feedback from the LMC regarding issues relating to Evolve eye drops. Patients are requesting supplies more frequently as they are using larger quantities than stated dose, possibly due to the container. This would be fed back to the specialists.’ Source
Birmingham, Sandwell, Solihull and environs (BSSE) CCGs: Switched from HYLO Forte to Evolve HA
January 2019 – ‘A Trust representative made the APC secretary aware the ophthalmology department at the Trust has moved to using Evolve HA® as it is a more cost effective brand of sodium hyaluronate. The formulary makes reference to Hylo-Forte® as the brand for sodium hyaluronate.
APC members agreed to add Evolve HA® to the formulary’. Source
September 2019 – ‘A member asked for more information regarding concerns with the Evolve HA® device. Mr Kolli explained there is an issue with the dropper and subsequent larger drop size; some patients were having issues making the bottle last longer than one or two weeks. Therefore, Evolve HA® is not as cost effective as anticipated.’ Source
Delivering Innovation With The HYLO® Range
High-quality
Ingredients

Preservative
Free

Unique COMOD
Bottle

Contact Lens
Compatible

We Are Here To Listen
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- Data on File – InspireMed, Preservative Free Sodium Hyaluronate Prescription Data, August 2021
- Data on file – Preservative free (PF) ocular lubricant data extracted from Cegedim’s THIN database, Jan 2020-Dec 2020 (Representative of 400+ GP practices & 3.2M patient population)
- TFOS DEWS II Management and Therapy Report. L. Jones et al. 2017, The Ocular Surface 15, pp. 575-628.
- The use of preservatives in dry eye drops. Karen Walsh, Lyndon Jones. Clinical Ophthalmology 2019:13 1409-1425
- https://bnf.nice.org.uk/treatment-summary/dry-eye.html