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😨   Mounjaro: Experts issue warning over black market jabs, with fifth of areas still lacking NHS access

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One in five local areas in England still do not provide the weight loss jab tirzepatide (Mounjaro) on the NHS six months after the drug was supposed to be rolled out across the country, The has found.Although progress has been made since The reported that last summer less than half of England’s integrated care board (ICB) areas had access to the jab,1 experts warned that “unacceptable” delays are leaving thousands of patients who could benefit by the wayside.They also warned that the continued poor access could push people—especially those desperate to lose weight quickly because of time pressing issues such as fertility—towards dangerous black market providers of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs).Just last week ...

BMJ     Jan 09, 2026