While the NHS's rollout of weight-loss drugs remains painfully slow, with only a handful of patients treated, placing the burden on overstretched GPs is not the answer. The government should instead consider commissioning pharmacies, which can provide the sustainable weight-loss treatment required more quickly than the sluggish NHS system.

This scheme creates dangerous incentives by paying GPs thousands of pounds to prescribe medications without any long-term safety data. With hundreds already dead and injured as a result of these treatments, it is clear that the government is prioritizing corporate profit over patient safety by pushing this medical quackery.