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Pharmacists are ready to offer weight-loss jabs to NHS patients, but only if the funding is right and supply is safeguarded, chemists have told The i Paper. Currently GPs can prescribe Mounjaro to ...

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Weight loss medication Mounjaro is beginning to be rolled out on the NHS, alongside other brands like Wegovy also being available through prescription.

Any Brits wanting to get a Wegovy prescription through the NHS will have to make sure they fit the right criteria first. Weight loss drugs are being hailed as some of the most important medical ...

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Dr Claire Fuller, from NHS England, said: “This is an important next step in the rollout of weight loss drugs, with community-based services now able to offer this treatment from today.