Health secretary Wes Streeting wants to make the drugs more widely available on the NHS
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Around 2.5 million people are using weight loss jabs in the UK, according to a report.
Some 2.9 per cent of people surveyed said they use jabs to lose weight
Around 2.5 million people are currently estimated to be on weight-loss medications in the UK
Patients may eventually access weight-loss jabs at pharmacies in a drive to ‘turn the tide’ on rising obesity, Professor Sir…
The UK has an obesity epidemic, with levels having doubled since the 1990s. Could increasing the rollout of weight-loss drugs…
Around 1.5 million people are currently using weight loss jabs in the UK, 4 per cent of households
Around 29% of the adult population in the UK is obese
