Diabetes

Diabetes items made up one-fifth of NHS community prescription spend in 2025

NHS Business Services Authority data show that 83 million items for diabetes were prescribed to 4.1 million patients in England in 2025/2026.…

Survey warns of ‘lifestyle drive’ for weight-loss medication

A LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor-commissioned survey found that an upcoming wedding is the most common motivator for patients to use or consider weight-loss medication.…

Once-weekly insulin would be ‘significant change’ for diabetes prescribers

Clinical trial evidence suggests that the once-weekly insulin efsitora alfa injection could decrease the number of injections that patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus need by 85%.…

MHRA approves orforglipron weight-loss pill

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said its approval of orforglipron makes the UK the first country in Europe to authorise the medication.…

Around one in five adults would share weight-loss jabs with friends, survey finds

A Pharmacy2U-commissioned survey also found that more than one-quarter of UK adults said that they would share oral weight-loss medication with friends or family.…

Health news round-up: coffee, ADHD prescribing, and GLP-1s and hair loss

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…

Health news round-up: vaccination, testosterone and neighbourhood health

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…

Three-quarters of pharmacies expect surge in demand for weight-loss pill

National Pharmacy Association says the availability of oral semaglutide (Wegovy; Novo Nordisk) “is particularly significant for patients who cannot or do not want to take an injectable medicine”.…

NICE recommends first drug to delay symptoms of type 1 diabetes for NHS use

In what has been described as “an extraordinary moment”, teplizumab has been recommended as an immunotherapy for adults and children aged eight years and older with stage two type 1 diabetes mellitus.…

Health news round-up: endocrine research, binge eating on the pill and AI in the NHS

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…