National Pharmacy Association chair Olivier Picard has welcomed the government's plan to curb people from getting hold of weight-loss jabs by cheating the system.
Health secretary Wes Streeting has claimed that people buying online are pretending to be overweight so that they can get hold of jabs like Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy.
"We're pleased that Wes Streeting agrees with our calls for patients who are not clinically eligible to not attempt to access weight loss injections," Picard said.
"We're clear that weight loss treatment should be for those who are clinically eligible, with full wrap around support, not those who simply want to lose a few pounds before going on holiday," he added.
Picard also urged the government to bring forward plans to include pharmacies in the rollout of their NHS weight management programme.
Streeting said the Government was looking at how to prevent people who do not need the jabs getting hold of them.
“What we are seeing is a lot of people cheating the system online and making out they’re bigger than they are because there are a lot of people who maybe want to lose a few pounds before they go on holiday, who are jabbing," he told the Politics Inside Out podcast.
