Rishi Sunak has announced a £40,000,000 pilot scheme for a 'game-changing' weight-loss drug on the NHS. Wegovy is a synthetic version of a naturally occurring hormone which plays a big part in whether someone's brain and gut feel like they're full.
'Obesity puts huge pressure on the NHS,' he said.
As an anti-obesity drug, Wegovy makes the stomach empty more slowly so a person feels fuller faster and for longer.in 2021, found that of the 2,000 participants on Wegovy rather than a placebo, they lost 15% of their body weight.More than a third of participants, tested at 129 health centres in 16 countries, lost more than 20% of their weight after taking the injection weekly for 68 weeks.
Decades of studies have also shown that free will isn't the be-all, end-all of obesity; powerful biological levers in people's bodies can have massive influences on weight as well. While the UK doesn't have a supply of the drug, Nice says it could soon be available to tens of thousands of patients.
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