{"id":5878,"date":"2025-09-06T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5878\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T11:30:11","slug":"low-ozemipic-uptake-in-leitrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5878\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Ozemipic uptake in Leitrim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 35,000 people nationwide were prescribed Ozempic free of charge last year to manage type 2 diabetes, but Leitrim ranks among the counties with the lowest uptake.<\/p>\n<p>The once-weekly injection has soared in popularity, but rural patients still face barriers, from clinic shortages to long waits for referrals.<\/p>\n<p>HSE data shows major regional gaps in prescriptions under the Long-Term Illness scheme, with North Dublin and Galway leading the charts.<\/p>\n<p>Local GPs are calling for greater transparency to ensure rural counties like Leitrim aren\u2019t left behind in diabetes care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 35,000 people nationwide were prescribed Ozempic free of charge last year to manage type 2 diabetes, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-5878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","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=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}