Yes I think it is common knowledge that wegovy is for two years and mounjaro for life. The link will need updating by the nhs, as they have now approved mounjaro, albeit it starts in the summer via tier 3. It’s a shame it’s only for 300k people a year but they just don’t have the money, yet.
howver the more people take it privately the more pressure comes off the nhs, due to other health conditions needing treatment reducing. I suspect that’s in part why the government is so supportive of the drugs, the proven safety and low risk of the drugs and if you cure the issue and you don’t need to treat the symptoms.
I was being checked monthly by my gp. Taking heavy doses of bp meds, now they are stopped as I’m a healthy weight and bp is fine, and I no longer need to see the doctor, so as a micro example, my private treatment has freed up nhs resources, and that will be multiplied by hundreds of thousands.
and that’s before we start counting a reduction in things like cancer, joint replacement, diabetes, repurcussions of diabetes, heart attack, stroke. And so many more medical problems obese people suffer with.
obesity is one of the most signficant and major deadly diseases we endure as a population, and a large swathe of the population, globally is suffering and living with obesity, when you remove that for the vast majority, safely enable them to be a healthy weight, you by turn make the nhs much more efficient.
it will take time, but the more people who buy it privately the less pressure there is on the nhs, and as new drugs hit the market, and pills, we will see the nhs being able to more widely prescribe, as resources are freed up.