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ByNick TriggleHealth correspondent
  • Published36 minutes ago

Hundreds of thousands more people should be given access to the weight-loss injection Mounjaro on the NHS in England, a cross-party group of MPs says.

The Health Committee said the current plan for 220,000 people to have this jab for free on prescription in 2028 was a "woefully small number" and "unambitious".

This represents only around 6% of eligible people and is a key reason why more than a million have been paying privately for weight-loss injections, including Mounjaro and Wegovy.