{"id":255983,"date":"2025-11-11T02:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255983\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:03:17","slug":"wales-allows-surgery-patients-access-to-weight-loss-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/255983\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales allows surgery patients access to weight loss jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh government has announced that the weight-loss drug tirzepatide (<a data-linked-post=\"2674175854\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pharmacy.biz\/mounjaro-stolen-from-scotland-pharmacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mounjaro<\/a>) will be made available to patients needing time-sensitive surgery or organ transplants.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be available to women seeking fertility treatment, and people with conditions such as severe asthma, severe obstructive sleep apnoea, or cancer where weight loss would improve treatment outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The government said it is developing a comprehensive new model to expand capacity across specialist, primary care and community settings.<\/p>\n<p>This will ensure <a data-linked-post=\"2670344933\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pharmacy.biz\/news\/tirzepatide-not-recommend-for-type-2-diabetes-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tirzepatide <\/a>and other weight loss medications are more widely available, combined with wrap-around support.<\/p>\n<p>Health Secretary Jeremy Miles said there is considerable demand for specialist weight management services and growing pressure for access to these medications through the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To help meet demand in a sustainable way, we are building capacity and capability, while ensuring people with the most urgent clinical need can access treatment without delay,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the weight loss medication was only available on the NHS through specialist weight management services.<\/p>\n<p>The change follows NICE&#8217;s approval of tirzepatide in December 2024 for treating obesity in adults, with an estimated 186,000 people in Wales potentially meeting the eligibility criteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Welsh government has announced that the weight-loss drug tirzepatide (Mounjaro) will be made available to patients needing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,1692,16837,56,54,55,10029],"class_list":{"0":"post-255983","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-mounjaro","11":"tag-tirzepatide","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-weight-loss-jabs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}