Unemployed people to be given weight loss jabs to ‘get them back to work’
Up to 3,000 obese patients will take part in a five-year study to investigate if the jabs increase productivity and bring people back to work (Picture: Corbis vis Getty)
Unemployed people could be given new weight loss jabs to help them get back into work, the Health Secretary has suggested.
Wes Streeting said ‘widening waistbands’ were placing a burden on the NHS.
He went on: ‘Our widening waistbands are also placing significant burden on our health service, costing the NHS £11 billion a year – even more than smoking.
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