{"id":563717,"date":"2025-11-11T14:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563717\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:15:45","slug":"wales-allows-surgery-patients-access-to-weight-loss-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/563717\/","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=\"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=\"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":563718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,4326,22007,22005,16,15,76647],"class_list":{"0":"post-563717","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-weight-loss-jabs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115531489212682725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}