NHS delays to tackle weight loss 'leads patients to buy risky fat jabs', top GP warns
Daily MailLong waits for NHS weight-loss services are driving patients into buying potentially dangerous jabs online, the nation’s top GP has warned. They may know ways of helping you that you haven’t thought about.’ Delays to NHS weight-loss services are driving patients to turn to potentially dangerous jabs online, a top GP has warned. Pictured: Ozempic injection pens About 500,000 people in the UK have been prescribed weight-loss jabs, but only five per cent are getting them on the NHS Professor Kamila Hawthorne warned that even those patients getting drugs from registered online pharmacies risked missing out on essential monitoring and care About 500,000 people in the UK have been prescribed weight-loss jabs, data shows, but only 5 per cent are estimated to be getting them from the NHS. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said buying the drugs online was extremely risky, suggesting criminals will go to ‘great lengths’ to make their businesses appear authentic.
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