GPs get 3,000 bonus to maximise weight loss drug prescriptions
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Weight loss jabs have proven hugely impactful with encouraging evidence for treating obesity and related health conditions. Expanding NHS access ensures healthcare remains based on need rather than ability to pay, preventing a two-tier system where only the wealthy benefit from these effective treatments.
Paying GPs £3,000 bonuses to prescribe weight loss drugs creates dangerous financial incentives to push medications lacking long-term safety data. With hundreds already dead and injured from these treatments, this scheme prioritizes profit over patient safety and represents medical quackery.
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