Wes Streeting has been urged to expand acess to weight loss jabs on the NHS by partnering with private clinics amid unprecedented demand for the treatment.

Pharmadoctor, the largest provider of paid-for obesity jabs like Mounjaro and Wegovy in pharmacies across the UK, has reported a 1,300 per cent increase in demand over the past 12 months and is expected to offer the injections privately to 750,000 people this year.

The NHS began supplying Mounjaro to clinically obese patients via GPs in June, and is expected to treat 220,000 people in England over the next three years under the NHS 10-year health plan.

The Health Secretary said last week he was “very enthusiastic” about the potential of the jabs to solve Britain’s obesity epidemic.

But demand in the UK for the injections is seve

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