Wes Streeting, UK Health Secretary, announced plans to trial new weight-loss medications like Mounjaro on individuals struggling with worklessness and productivity. The aim is to assess the drugs' potential in reducing absenteeism, boosting employment, and easing pressure on the National Health Service (NHS).
Health Secretary reveals plans to trial latest generation of drugs like Mounjaro on worklessness and productivity
The latest generation of weight loss medicine, like Ozempic or Mounjaro, could be administered to people in order to get them back into employment, and to ease costs to the health service, he added. His suggestion comes as the Government announced a £279m investment from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company – on the day the Prime Minister hosted an international investment summit.
The Health Secretary continued: “The reforms this Government will put in place will open the NHS up to work much more closely with life sciences, to develop new, more effective treatments, and put NHS patients at the front of the queue.”
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