A striking postcode lottery is causing thousands to miss out on potentially life-saving weight-loss jabs, a Daily Mail analysis has revealed.
Patients in some parts of England are nearly five times more likely to receive ‘King-Kong’ injection Mounjaro than those living elsewhere.
Britons with the easiest access to the blockbuster medication are those in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, as well as Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
Meanwhile, NHS patients in Dorset and Derbyshire are struggling to get prescriptions for the jabs.
Mounjaro, rolled out in June last year, is the only weight loss jab to be prescribed by GPs. Rival injections Wegovy and Ozempic
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