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by sidewndr46 1261 days ago
I thought the UK had government healthcare?
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It does but it doesn’t mean you get any treatment available. They carefully make decisions on what treatments they can/should provide. This may be offered eventually but at the moment it’s a case of be very fat and get offered gastric sleeve or just be overweight and no treatments are offered other than advice about losing weight
Any sort of new care option, you're looking at 20-30 year window before it may become an option?
Semaglutide is available on the NHS but I wouldn't currently qualify. It'd only be prescribed if I met certain criteria such as having type 2 diabetes.

It's a case of either paying for a private prescription now, or waiting until it's made more accessible on the NHS.