Pharmacy leaders have issued a fresh warning over the online sale of weight-loss jabs insisting there is still a risk to patient safety. The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has called for tougher rules in a letter to regulators,

Weight loss jabs, known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, work by reducing food cravings. In October, the MHRA told health professionals to remind patients of the side effects of the drugs, such as nausea and diarrhoea and, less commonly, gallstones and pancreatitis.

Britain’s pharmacists have called for tougher regulation of weight-loss drugs after reports showed some online sellers have set targets for clinicians to process more than 20 patients every hour. In a letter to regulators,

Pharmacy leaders issue fresh warning over online sales of weight loss jabs - Pharmacists say they are aware of people being wrongly prescribed the drugs who have previously had eating disorders, or whose body weight is low.

The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has written to regulators calling for tougher rules to be introduced around sale of weight loss jabs online.