UK will mass produce it’s own fat jabs to tackle obesity crisis, vows Minister [Video]

15:00 EDT 14 Oct 2024, updated 16:01 EDT 14 Oct 2024

Obesity jabs will be tested and made in the UK under Government plans to shore up NHS supplies and tackle the nation’s bulging waist lines.

Ministers believe the breakthrough drugs have a major role to play in boosting productivity, with weight-related illness costing the economy £74billion a year.

The Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will work with industry to establish how the jabs could reduce demand for healthcare and get people back to work.

It comes as doctors prepare for the mass roll out of weight-loss jabs on the NHS and follows widespread reports of global shortages.

Pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly, which makes the weight loss drug Mounjaro, today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government, which will see them work together to improve care for people living with obesity.