{"id":85430,"date":"2026-02-24T07:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85430"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:21:12","slug":"gps-to-be-paid-to-prescribe-weight-loss-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/24\/gps-to-be-paid-to-prescribe-weight-loss-jabs\/","title":{"rendered":"GPs to be paid to prescribe weight-loss jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WVuRI.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=456&amp;y=102&amp;s=146&amp;d=146\" alt=\"Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, says access to weight-loss drugs should be \u2018based on need, not the ability to pay\u2019 - Martin Rickett\/PA Wire\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GPs will be paid more to prescribe weight-loss jabs to speed up the\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/09\/05\/half-gps-not-prescribing-fat-jabs-nhs-rollout-mounjaro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS rollout of the medication<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/gps-to-be-paid-to-prescribe-weight-loss-jabs\/ar-AA1WVEwH?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=699d4f1aa2e84b10ace641bda4050c95&amp;ei=36\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>GPs will be paid more to prescribe weight-loss jabs to speed up the\u00a0NHS rollout of the medication. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GP-consulting.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85431,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85430\/revisions\/85431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}