{"id":272201,"date":"2026-01-30T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272201\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:37:07","slug":"hse-spent-over-e500k-a-day-last-year-on-weight-loss-jabs-for-patients-on-free-drugs-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272201\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE spent over \u20ac500k a day last year on weight-loss jabs for patients on free drugs schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The HSE has spent more than \u20ac200 million on Ozempic and similar weight-loss jabs in less than three years, with 80,000 patients getting the medication on free drugs schemes in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The number of people availing of the injections at taxpayers\u2019 expense has increased by a third since 2023, with the HSE spending an average of \u20ac580,000 every day on the jabs last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The HSE has spent more than \u20ac200 million on Ozempic and similar weight-loss jabs in less than three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,2120,61,60],"class_list":["post-272201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}