\n Boots, on North Street, Brighton, has launched the service as a trial initially across 17 stores nationwide, offering treatments such as Mounjaro and Wegovy on the high street for the first time.\n<\/p>\n
\n Customers will be offered an in-person consultation with a pharmacist in a private consultation room, where their health and medical history will be assessed to see if they are eligible for treatment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Weight loss medication has until now been largely only available through online prescriptions.\n<\/p>\n
\n GPs in England are also allowed to prescribe Mounjaro on the NHS, but only to severely obese people who also suffer from a range of other health problems.\n<\/p>\n
\n Estimates suggest more than 1.5 million people in the UK are already taking weight loss drugs, which may have been prescribed through specialist weight loss services or via private prescription.\n<\/p>\n
\n Jamie Kerruish, chief healthcare officer at Boots, said: \u201cWe know that people have different preferences for how they access healthcare services \u2013 some seeking online support and some wanting in person conversations with their local practitioner.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe launch of our in-store weight loss treatment service alongside our digital offer delivered through Boots Online Doctor means we can now deliver convenient care to people both online or in person.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cOur weight loss treatment services are for anyone whose lives are affected by obesity.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFor people who are overweight or living with obesity, it can be hard to lose weight through diet and exercise alone.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWeight loss treatment combined with 360 support to make lifestyle and behavioural changes, can be a powerful tool in helping people manage their weight and at Boots we are here for every step of our customers\u2019 weight loss journeys.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Boots has already been selling Mounjaro, made by Eli Lilly, and Novo Nordisk\u2019s treatment Wegovy through its Boots Online Doctor service.\n<\/p>\n
\n Customers can book in-store appointments for the service online or on a walk-in basis at stores taking part in the pilot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boots, on North Street, Brighton, has launched the service as a trial initially across 17 stores nationwide, offering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-282727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}