The price of popular weight-loss jab
The price of popular weight-loss jab Mounjaro will nearly triple after the US-owned company equalised costs in markets across the globe.
A month’s supply of the highest doses of the “King Kong” of weight loss medicine will rise from £122 to £330 - an increase of 170 per cent.
At least 500,000 people in the UK take either Mounjaro or Wegovy, another weight loss jab, via prescriptions from private online pharmacies, according to retailers.
In June, the NHS offered Mounjaro to obese patients after health experts calculated from NHS England data that there were 97,500 patients who would benefit from the treatment.
Mounjaro’s owner Eli Lily said it would not raise the price paid by the NHS, and it was working with private healthcare providers to maintain access to the jab
