Record £1.5BILLION was spent on dishing out diabetes drugs last year amid ever-growing obesity crisis

Record £1.5BILLION was spent on dishing out diabetes drugs last year amid ever-growing obesity crisis A record £1.5billion was spent on diabetes drugs last year, shock figures revealed today.

Costs of prescribing medication like metformin and insulin have jumped by 50 per cent in the last five years. One in every seven pounds spent on prescriptions is now for diabetes. 

The spiraling fees to the NHS come as obesity rates have soared, with two-thirds of adults now considered fat. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Prescribing for Diabetes – England – 2015/16 to 2022/23 NHS Business Services Authority
• Pharmaceutical titan Novo Nordisk rakes in record £4.5BILLION due to success of its game-changing weight loss jabs Ozempic and Wegovy The Daily Mail