Obesity: Drugs
Commons · Question 69600 · Tabled 21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 1 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2025 to Question 67568 on Obesity: Drugs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that private online clinics prescribing weight loss drugs are compliant wit
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 1 Sep 2025
The safest way to access medicines privately is to do so via a United Kingdom-registered prescriber and pharmacy, whether in-person or online. All UK prescribers, whether employed privately or by the National Health Service, are expected to take account o...