Meanwhile, Dr Rahul Thakur, from Pendle View Medical Practice in Brierfield, said people were calling the surgery to ask about the injections on a daily basis.
He said the drugs are “a breakthrough in obesity management” but when people come off them “there is a reversal of the effects and people start gaining weight unless there has been a behavioural change”.
Pharmacist Cathryn Brown agreed that “addressing the underlying reason why you have gained the excess weight in the first place” is important.
“If someone is a comfort eater, or someone who gets snackish when they are sat on the sofa of an evening, then figuring out how to change that underlying behaviour is really important,” she said.
“And that’s why accessing these medicines through a pharmacy-led service or through the NHS is really important.”