A FAT jab prescription was handed out on the NHS every seven seconds last year, research by The Sun has found.
signed off weight-busting medications 4,605,058 times in the 12 months to March — the equivalent of a sign-off every 6.85 seconds.
A fat jab prescription was handed out on the NHS every seven seconds last year, research by The Sun has found Credit: Getty
GPs signed off weight-busting medications 4,605,058 times in the 12 months to March — the equivalent of a sign-off every 6.85 seconds Credit: Getty
Doctors authorised 33,520,435 individual doses of GLP-1 treatments such as and Wegovy, which are used to manage both severe obesity and .
Our analysis of official NHS prescribing data also found England’s top per-capita hotspot for prescriptions is Doncaster, where one in every 88 people is on taxpayer-subsidised jabs.
Family doctors in the South Yorkshire city handed out 113,362 prescriptions in a year, costing £14.9million.
Darlington, in Co Durham, claimed second place, with one in 89 residents receiving the weight-loss medication.
Lancashire seaside town Blackpool followed in third, with one in 101 people on the treatment.
Leicester topped the overall volume leaderboard for a single city, racking up 143,789 prescriptions at a total cost of £22.1million.
Central London postcodes recorded the lowest NHS prescribing rates — mainly because wealthier patients bypassed long GP waiting lists to buy jabs privately.
spending hit £706.4million for and medications over the period.
Around 380,000 patients across England are now thought to get fat jabs through the .
GPs began prescribing Mounjaro for weight loss last summer, and studies suggest it can also reduce the risk of and .
Weight-loss jabs have previously wiped an estimated £780million from Britain’s grocery bills, with one in six households now having at least one user.
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