National Drug Shortage Posted or Updated on 12 Sep 2024

GLP1 Therapy for Diabetes Trulicity & Ozempic

Dear Patients,

We need to make you aware of a national drug shortage for the use of GLP1 injection therapy for weight management within diabetes.

The GLP1 drugs are a weekly injection that have been used by the NHS for diabetic weight management for years. However, there has been a shortage of these drugs and patients are now having problems obtaining their prescriptions for these medications.

Alternative drugs have now been sanctioned to use. However, each patient will need to have a consultation as the new drugs have different dosing instructions and how they are administered.  We are gradually changing patients over to the new drugs, but as you can appreciate this is a huge undertaking, and we are doing our best to make these changes as quickly as possible, so please bear with us.

Thank you for your patience and co-operation.