Should unemployed obese people get weight loss jabs? Have your say
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Health secretary Wes Streeting has said that weight loss jabs could be rolled out to unemployed people living with obesity in order to "help them get back to work".
It comes as the UK government announced a £279 million investment from Lilly, the world's largest pharmaceutical company. The collaboration includes real-world trials that will examine whether weight loss jabs can reduce unemployment.
Obesity-related sickness leads to people taking four extra sick days a year, Streeting said, and leaving many others unable to work altogether.
"The long-term benefits of these drugs could be monumental in our approach to tackling obesity," he wrote. "For many people, these weight loss jabs will be life-changing, help them get back to work, and ease the demands on our NHS."
A five-year study by Health Innovation Manchester and Lilly will examine how treating obesity as a "rounded package of care" can help get obese Britons back into work.
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