NHS has to draw a line somewhere
Max Pemberton
The Spectator
Obesity rates have nearly doubled in the UK since the 1990s and the NHS now spends around £6.5bn a year treating it, says Max Pemberton. Being overweight – which 60% of the UK population now is – costs the NHS twice as much as being a healthy weight. No intervention to reduce the figure has worked, and it is hoped that weight-loss injections known as GLP-1 agonists (Wegovy/Ozempic) could reverse this trend. Rishi Sunak says
