{"id":311673,"date":"2026-03-03T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311673\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:49:09","slug":"southend-residents-left-behind-with-mounjaro-weight-loss-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311673\/","title":{"rendered":"Southend residents &#8216;left behind&#8217; with Mounjaro weight loss jab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nationally, about 3.4 million people meet eligibility criteria for the drug, but the NHS plans to treat only 220,000 over three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ministers have confirmed that GP surgeries would receive a \u00a33,000 bonus if they prescribe the drug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A typical GP practice of 6,000 patients, will have fewer than 20 people qualifying for the drug in total, and year one funding is expected to cover only a fraction of that number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lib Dems say Southend has some of the starkest health divides in the country, with a 10.5-year gap in male life expectancy between the most and least wealthiest areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Obesity is a key contributing factor, yet many residents cannot afford private healthcare or prescriptions, which can cost between \u00a3160 and \u00a3310 per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nationally, about 3.4 million people meet eligibility criteria for the drug, but the NHS plans to treat only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-311673","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\/311673","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=311673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}