{"id":502816,"date":"2026-02-25T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502816\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:14:07","slug":"mounjaro-availability-a-postcode-lottery-says-stone-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502816\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounjaro availability a postcode lottery, says Stone patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kinsella said he did not think the new incentives would help because the scale of the problem was too big.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s basically a postcode lottery,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There really doesn&#8217;t seem to be much good planning in place and quite frankly I don&#8217;t see how the surgeries, consultations, can cope with the workload.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doctors don&#8217;t currently have the resources to meet the requirements, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the rules meant they needed to offer two consultations lasting 85 minutes each, then every four weeks a 20-minute consultation as well as a dietician appointment lasting 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The scale and the size of the problem is known,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I actually think we&#8217;ve got a solution, but we can&#8217;t connect the two because the NHS system can&#8217;t connect those two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Somehow we&#8217;ve got to find a mechanism that allows this drug, which has been so successful for so many people, to become more widely available.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kinsella said he did not think the new incentives would help because the scale of the problem was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":["post-502816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}