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Health secretary announces trials to assess impact of medicines such as Ozempic or Mounjaro on worklessness

New weight-loss jabs could be given to unemployed people to help them get back into work, Wes Streeting has suggested.

The health secretary said “widening waistbands” were placing a burden on the NHS.

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