{"id":129629,"date":"2024-11-24T18:55:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T11:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129629"},"modified":"2024-11-24T18:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T11:55:40","slug":"king-charless-doctor-warns-that-using-ozempic-for-weight-loss-could-make-the-nhs-less-sustainable-by-placing-greater-burden-on-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129629","title":{"rendered":"King Charles&#8217;s doctor warns that using Ozempic for weight loss could make the NHS &#8216;less sustainable&#8217; by placing greater burden on doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"js-article-text\" wp_automatic_readability=\"87.284881727803\">\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-1743\/daisy-graham-brown.html\" class=\"author\">DAISY GRAHAM-BROWN<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"><span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Published:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2024-11-24T00:08:21+0000\"> 19:08 EST, 23 November 2024 <\/time> <\/span> | <span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"> <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2024-11-24T00:49:35+0000\"> 19:49 EST, 23 November 2024 <\/time> <\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <!-- ad: https:\/\/mads.dailymail.co.uk\/v8\/us\/news\/none\/article\/other\/para_top.html --> <!-- CWV --><!--[if !IE]><!--> <link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/mol-fe\/static\/mol-fe-async-bundle\/11.3.0\/articleDefer.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <!--<![endif]--> <!--[if IE]>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/1.17.0\/registration--.css\" media=\"screen\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]><!--> <link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/18.1.1\/registration--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <!--<![endif]--><!--[if IE]>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/1.17.0\/all-ie8-9--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/1.17.0\/all1-ie8-9--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n<![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]><!--> <link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/mol-fe\/static\/mol-fe-sync-bundle\/13.7.2\/desktop.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/18.1.2\/all--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/><link href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/gunther\/18.1.2\/all1--.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/> <!--<![endif]--><!--[if gte IE 8]><!--> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"screen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/static\/mol-fe\/static\/mol-fe-fff\/2.5.0\/styles\/fff.css\" \/> <!--<![endif]-->  <!--[if IE 8]>\n\n<![endif]--> <!--[if IE 9]>\n\n<![endif]--> <!--[if IE]>\n\n<![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]> -->  <!--<![endif]--><!-- SiteCatalyst code version: H.20.3.\n    Copyright 1997-2009 Omniture, Inc. 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that one in six UK adults is on antidepressants: a figure he partly blames on the pressure GPs are under.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;If you only have five or ten minutes per appointment, it&#8217;s far easier for me to give you Prozac, than to start talking about life stresses, work and all the rest of it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Speaking to The Times, Dr Dixon \u2013 who has sometimes been mocked for his support of alternative medicine \u2013 said: &#8216;The endgame is the community looking after itself and individuals looking after themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The more we are dependent on professionals,\u00a0on Ozempic, on everything else, the less self-dependent we become and the less sustainable the health service becomes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\" wp_automatic_readability=\"8\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-766d282d64dc4bab\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/24\/00\/92419621-14118661-image-a-2_1732409279920.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"King Charles 's doctor Dr Michael Dixon (pictured with the King) has warned that using Ozempic for weight loss places a greater burden on the NHS\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-766d282d64dc4bab\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/24\/00\/92419621-14118661-image-a-2_1732409279920.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"King Charles 's doctor Dr Michael Dixon (pictured with the King) has warned that using Ozempic for weight loss places a greater burden on the NHS\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">King Charles &#8216;s doctor Dr Michael Dixon (pictured with the King) has warned that using Ozempic for weight loss places a greater burden on the NHS\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\" wp_automatic_readability=\"10\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7ea26cf610c27b4c\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/24\/00\/92419639-14118661-image-a-3_1732409306607.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Dr Dixon, 72, argues that prescribed drugs should be replaced by moving care back into communities and taking a more holistic approach to problems such as obesity (Stock image)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-7ea26cf610c27b4c\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/11\/24\/00\/92419639-14118661-image-a-3_1732409306607.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Dr Dixon, 72, argues that prescribed drugs should be replaced by moving care back into communities and taking a more holistic approach to problems such as obesity (Stock image)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Dr Dixon, 72, argues that prescribed drugs should be replaced by moving care back into communities and taking a more holistic approach to problems such as obesity (Stock image)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Dr Dixon&#8217;s warning comes as it was revealed the number of hospital admissions for bad reactions to weight-loss drugs is more than four times higher than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Last month, the medicines regulator said there had been 68 UK hospitalisations associated with &#8216;miracle&#8217; 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