Caution urged on 'biomedical approach' to weight-loss drive

GP Professor Sir Anthony Everington. Credit: UK Parliament

By Sarah Lowden

The NHS should “be cautious about the biomedical approach” to tackling obesity, MPs have heard.

Professor Sir Anthony Everington, a GP and former chairman at Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group, told the Health and Social Care Committee (HSCC) that the long-term effects of weight-loss jabs are unknown, and we should instead focus on a “personalised approach”.