{"id":99079,"date":"2025-08-27T07:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/99079\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:07:08","slug":"mounjaro-price-inequality-in-full-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/99079\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounjaro price inequality in full play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olivia Fraser<\/p>\n

BBC News, Guernsey<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by ANDY RAIN\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Mounjaro prices are set to increase from 1 September<\/p>\n

Incoming price increases to the weight-loss drug Mounjaro will cause another wealth divide in healthcare, a doctor says.<\/p>\n

It follows manufacturer Eli Lilly announcing it was increasing the list price of the drug by as much as 170% for people paying privately in the UK after being sold “significantly below” European rates.<\/p>\n

“If we are offering something and then taking it away and suddenly making it financially only available to people who can afford those high prices, you are going to cause a massive divide and further inequality,” according to Dr Mayoni Gooneratne, who works in the UK but also but also co-founded Guernsey Women’s Wellness.<\/p>\n

“This is health inequality in full play,” she added.<\/p>\n

Pharmacies locally are still unclear on how the price increases will reflect onto local stock.<\/p>\n

In Guernsey, pharmacies approached by the BBC said they had existing stock but did not know what prices would be in the future.<\/p>\n

In Jersey, Public Health said government and other experts “are considering” whether the island “should follow UK practice and plan to report their findings in September”.<\/p>\n

Matthew Johnson, from LV Pharmacy, said: “There isn’t anything a pharmacy can do to mitigate the price”.<\/p>\n

Dr Gooneratne also said she had concerns surrounding what price increases could mean for those using it.<\/p>\n

She said: “This is how black market pharmaceuticals are propagated.<\/p>\n

“It means that unscrupulous prescribing happens. It means the wrong kind of medication is being given out, and, worse still, fakes or toxic medication… start to hit the market.”<\/p>\n

She said it was “so sad” to see her patients who “really wanted to improve their health” have the drug taken away from them due to costs.<\/p>\n

“The first instinctive response from them [the patients] has been panic and despair,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Dr Rob Greig said he was concerned about the regulation of drugs<\/p>\n

Jersey-based medical consultant Dr Rob Greig said he was less worried about the impact of price increases of the drug and more worried about regulation generally.<\/p>\n

“The demand is there, people will probably pay more. The concern is how people access that medication” he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Greig said people were ordering it online even before the price hike, which could present dangers if people had not been properly assessed for the drug.<\/p>\n

He said: “There is no regulation – there is nothing stopping us getting it, however which way we choose.<\/p>\n

“If you have a patient who has contraindications to any of these medications, they could end up becoming very sick”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Fraser BBC News, Guernsey Photo by ANDY RAIN\/EPA\/Shutterstock Mounjaro prices are set to increase from 1 September…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-99079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99079","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=99079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}