Fears have risen over the short time taken to carry out questionnaires to access weight-loss jabs
Britain’s pharmacists have called for tougher regulation of weight-loss drugs after reports showed some online sellers have set targets for clinicians to process more than 20 patients every hour.
Nick Kaye, chairman of the NPA, said: “It is important that consultations with patients are thorough, allowing a clinician to gain a full picture of someone’s suitability for weight loss injections as well as ensuring the patient fully understands the nature of the treatment and any potential side-effects it may cause.
The NPA has written to the General Pharmaceutical Council saying current rules leave the door open for medicines to be supplied without appropriate checks “and the risk to patient safety remains”. But by the start of the next decade, another 16 new weight-loss drugs should be available, by which time analysts estimate the market for obesity treatments could expand to $200bn .Such is the potential to crack down on obesity levels, Wes Streeting has suggested the jabs could be given to the unemployed to get them back to work.
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