Wes Streeting said ‘widening waistbands’ were placing a burden on the NHS.
Up to 3,000 obese patients will take part in a five-year study to investigate if the jabs increase productivity and bring people back to work Unemployed people could be given new weight loss jabs to help them get back into work, the Health Secretary has suggested. He went on: ‘Our widening waistbands are also placing significant burden on our health service, costing the NHS £11 billion a year – even more than smoking. And it’s holding back our economy.
Mr Streeting’s suggestion, in a Telegraph newspaper opinion piece, comes as the Government announced a £279 million investment from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company – on the day the Prime Minister hosted an international investment summit. The plans announced at the summit will include real-world trials of weight loss jabs’ impact on worklessness, according to the Telegraph.
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