Could ‘jabs for jobs’ be the miracle drug Wes Streeting needs to fix the NHS?
The IndependentThe real anxiety about the Labour government’s uncertain start has nothing to do with gifts and hospitality – or that ridiculous story about Taylor Swift’s blue-light escort – but whether it can deliver its central pledges on the NHS and the economy. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, is one of the new government’s brightest stars, with a ruthless focus on what works – regardless of Labour sentimentality about the legacy of 1948. Like Ozempic, however, Mounjaro is not currently available on the NHS – and so, on Tuesday this week, Streeting announced a trial that will look at the effects of this weight-loss treatment in getting people off benefits and into work – as well as in reducing demands on the NHS. Many people who have tried them – including Boris Johnson, Robert Jenrick, Andrea Jenkyns and James Corden – have also found their reported side effects intolerable. Any drug that seems to be effective tends to be hailed as a “wonder drug” these days, but these new weight-loss drugs could, indeed, work wonders – not just for people saved from illnesses, but for the NHS and for society as a whole.
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Hundreds in hospital with serious reactions to fat jabs
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UK obesity rates ‘may start dropping significantly’ this year because of weight loss jabs
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NHS delays to tackle weight loss 'leads patients to buy risky fat jabs', top GP warns
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Outcry over Labour's plans for free weight loss jabs on the NHS as majority of Brits believe people should pay for treatment privately
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Obese people ‘will have to wait’ for weight loss jab Mounjaro, NHS officials warn
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Wes Streeting warned inflation busting NHS Budget deal will not be enough
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Wes Streeting says weight-loss jabs for jobless obese people is not ‘dystopian’
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Wes Streeting defends plan to offer Ozempic weight-loss jabs to fat unemployed people to help them back into work but warns the NHS may struggle to meet demand
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Weight-loss drugs on the NHS? That’s just an admission of failure
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Woman on weight loss medicine calls Streeting ‘naive’ on anti-obesity jabs
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Doctors’ warning over Ozempic and Wegovy weight-loss jabs on NHS
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Unemployed to be given weight-loss jab to help them back into work, government announces
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Weight-loss jabs ‘important for economy so people get back into work’, says PM
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Weight-loss jabs could ‘overwhelm already stretched’ services, NHS chief warns
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Trial to assess whether anti-obesity jabs could boost employment levels
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Now Labour plan to give the unemployed FREE fat jabs: Keir Starmer to hand out weight loss 'wonder' drug to get jobless obese back to work
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Scotland becomes first UK nation to approve revolutionary 'King Kong' of obesity jabs on NHS
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Millions of fat Brits could be given fat loss drugs
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