This commission has been trying to deal with a more accurate way of diagnosing and classifying obesity in the first place. 'No system - the NHS or others - have had these methods yet - I think ...

NHS figures suggest hospital treatments for obese patients have quadrupled in a decade - rising from 442,083 in 2013/14 to almost 1.9 million in 2023/24. The rising cost of obesity on the nation ...

PRESCRIPTIONS handed out for semaglutide - a drug used to treat diabetes and more commonly known as Ozempic - more than... Local News News Barnsley South Yorkshire ...

There are precedents for a hybrid NHS-private model of healthcare. Ten years ago, a new drug treatment arrived that could cure the hepatitis C infection. The NHS couldn’t afford to give it to everyone ...

The NHS is asking millions of people to act now in order to "live better" with type 2 diabetes. The condition is thought to ...

Factors contributing to the ramifications of this disease as it stands include the socio-economic: overweight and obesity ...

The study comes after the leader of a government anti-obesity programme said that giving everyone access to weight loss drugs could “bankrupt the NHS”. Professor Naveed Sattar, who leads the ...

On Tuesday, NHS doctors were told to use these extra metrics to diagnose obesity, in new guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice). They had already been told to ...

“This commission has been trying to deal with a more accurate way of diagnosing and classifying obesity in the first place.” He went on: “No system – the NHS or others – have had these ...

It is the highest number on record and an increase from the 4.4 million reported last year. The charity also estimates that ...