Skinny Jab Scandal: Dispatches

Channel 4 +1

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Tuesday 4 March

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Reporter Ellie Flynn investigates Britain's obsession with weight loss injections and asks whether profits are being prioritised over patient safety. Undercover filming exposes the drugs being sold by a major high street chain to an under-age patient; and exposes registered NHS nurses prescribing the jabs without proper checks on patients. With an estimated half a million Britons currently being prescribed weight loss drugs, Ellie talks to experts who are concerned about the lack of oversight, asking why there are so many obese patients who are unable to get these drugs on the NHS, and reveals for the first time entire areas of the country where the NHS is not prescribing the medication