Written questions

Obesity: Prescription Drugs

Commons · Question 86734 · Tabled 30 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 10 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Charlotte Nichols

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy that weight loss injections can only be prescribed following a face-to-face meeting with a GP who can determine that the patient (a) does not have too low a BMI and (b

Answer

Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 10 Nov 2025

The Department is considering how the current prescribing system operates in relation to patient access to medicines through private, or non-National Health Service, routes. This includes online prescribing. A call for evidence was launched in August 2025...