Weight Loss Jabs for Jobs?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today, could weight loss drugs be used to help unemployed people get back to work?

In an interview outside Number 10, The PM has told Henry that weight loss jabs would be “very helpful” to people who want to lose weight. It follows comments from the Health Secretary Wes Streeting that jabs could be given to help people get back into work.

Adam speaks to Henry about his interview with the prime minister. Plus, Professor Giles Yeo, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, and Katherine Jenner, director of the Obesity Healthy Alliance join Adam to discuss whether the approach to getting people back into employment could work.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, later on in this episode, we're going to talk about this article that's been
0:08.8	written in the telegraph today by the Health Circuitry Wes Streeting, where he announces that the government and the NHS are
0:15.0	teaming up with a pharmaceutical company to do a study to see whether this new generation of
0:20.4	weight loss drugs, which people say are absolutely revolutionary can actually be used
0:25.1	to help people to get back into work because they had not been able to work because of weight
0:30.4	related reasons. Now I find this absolutely fascinating because it feels to me
0:36.4	like the first moment in our politics where the rubber is hitting the road
0:41.4	when it comes to these new drugs which all the experts and all
0:45.2	the ethicists and all the observers say are potentially going to revolutionize all our lives.
0:52.4	So this at last is a point at which we can talk about
0:55.4	maybe one of the practical consequences other than just stuff like how much does it cost
1:00.2	how much has it improved the GDP of Denmark where one of them was invented or
1:04.5	or which celebrities have got really really skinny all of a sudden and so who's taking it
1:09.2	or which politician is taking it. So we will do a deep dive into that as well as catching up with
1:14.2	yeah Kustama's done another interview. That's on this episode of newscast.
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1:23.0	You have a bright future behind you?
1:25.0	You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
1:27.0	We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies.
1:30.0	We don't understand the essence of Brad.
1:32.0	It's just
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