UK minister: weight-loss jabs for jobless obese not 'dystopian'

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2024-10-20

London (PA Media/dpa) - UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said offering weight loss jabs to unemployed obese people is not "dystopian." Streeting said a trial to test if anti-obesity injections can increase employment and ease pressure on the NHS may be a "game-changer." He told the BBC's "Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg" programme the jabs are not the only solution to obesity and he does not want a "dependency culture". He added: "I'm also not......

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