Only 6 per cent of eligible patients will get Mounjaro on the NHS, MPs warn, exposing a 'two-tier system'
Just 220,000 people will receive the jab across three years, from a pool of 2.8 million who qualify. Over a million Britons are now turning to private providers, with some paying more than £300 a month and falling into debt as a result. The Health and Social Care Committee called the plan 'unambitious' and demanded the Government 'urgently reassess' it. Chair Layla Moran said patients 'are repeatedly failed'.
Extending treatment to all 2.8 million eligible patients simultaneously would cost £15.2 billion over five years.
MPs warn the gap between supply and need is pushing desperate patients toward unlicensed black-market jabs bought online.
France performs bariatric operations at nearly ten times the rate of Britain.
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