{"id":796,"date":"2025-07-14T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:20:04","slug":"no-plans-for-weight-management-injections-on-the-nhs-on-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796\/","title":{"rendered":"No plans for weight management injections on the NHS on Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/207399-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Pixabay<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The DHSC confirms it&#8217;s focus is on promoting physical activity instead\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Island\u2019s health department says it has no current intentions to make weight management injections available locally on the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after authorities in England announced such medications would be available on prescription there.<\/p>\n<p>But the emphasis here\u00a0will be on using physical activity to promote health.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS in England currently prescribes weight loss medications to patients living with obesity who meet specific criteria.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Social Care on the Island says there are no plans within the current financial year to utilise Mounjaro injections for weight management<\/p>\n<p>It says that any potential change to this approach would need to be considered within the context of clinical governance, evidence of an injection&#8217;s effectiveness, the capacity for injections to be delivered locally and resources available.<\/p>\n<p>Obesity, it adds, remains one of the Island&#8217;s most significant health challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The department says Manx Sport and Recreation is promoting opportunities for physical activity, particularly among groups at greatest risks of poor health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>                    More from Isle of Man News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture credit: Pixabay The DHSC confirms it&#8217;s focus is on promoting physical activity instead The Island\u2019s health department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[96,758,59,102,755,756,757,128,50,759,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}