{"id":272425,"date":"2026-01-30T19:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272425\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:14:25","slug":"revealed-the-massive-hse-spend-on-weight-loss-jabs-like-ozempic-and-which-area-is-availing-of-the-drugs-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272425\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The massive HSE spend on weight-loss jabs like Ozempic \u2013 and which area is availing of the drugs most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Over \u20ac200m spent in less than three years at taxpayers\u2019 expense\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman taking an Ozempic injection. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/188dc1af-7ca6-4609-8473-304c509ec9e8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A woman taking an Ozempic injection. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The HSE has spent more than \u20ac200m on Ozempic and similar weight-loss jabs in less than three years, with 80,000 patients getting the medication on free drugs schemes last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The number of people availing of the injections at taxpayers\u2019 expense has increased by one-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":"Over \u20ac200m spent in less than three years at taxpayers\u2019 expense A woman taking an Ozempic injection. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,2120,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-272425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272425","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=272425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}