Demand for weight-loss jabs putting 'immense pressure' on healthcare
Daily Express|October 16, 2024
THE increasing clamour for antiobesity drugs is placing "immense pressure" on already over-stretched services, campaigners claim.
HANNA GEISSIER
Demand for weight-loss jabs putting 'immense pressure' on healthcare

More than 200 healthcare professionals have written to the Health Secretary calling for an urgent review of obesity services as they "unprecedented face public demand" for weight-loss jabs.

The Government plans to harness the revolutionary drugs' power to tackle ill-health and boost the economy by helping overweight unemployed people return to work.

A major trial of tirzepatide, known as the "King Kong" of such treatments, will evaluate its impact on economic outcomes as well as direct health effects.

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