Skip to main content
  • Language
    • Afrikaans
    • Albanian
    • Arabic
    • Armenian
    • Azerbaijani
    • Basque
    • Belarusian
    • Bengali
    • Bulgarian
    • Catalan
    • Chinese (Simplified)
    • Chinese (Traditional)
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Esperanto
    • Estonian
    • Filipino
    • Finnish
    • French
    • Galician
    • Georgian
    • German
    • Greek
    • Gujarati
    • Haitian Creole
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Icelandic
    • Indonesian
    • Irish
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Kannada
    • Korean
    • Lao
    • Latin
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Macedonian
    • Malay
    • Maltese
    • Norwegian
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Serbian
    • Slovak
    • Slovenian
    • Spanish
    • Swahili
    • Swedish
    • Tamil
    • Telugu
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Urdu
    • Vietnamese
    • Welsh
    • Yiddish
  • 01474 356661
  • Text Size
    • Increase Text Size
    • Decrease Text Size
    • Reset Text Size
The Shrubbery And Riverview Park Surgeries Providing NHS services
Providing NHS services
Search
Show Main Menu
  • Home
  • Appointments
  • Prescriptions
  • Services
    • Clinics
    • COVID-19 & Flu
    • Fit notes & Sick notes
    • Join the Practice
    • Local NHS Services
    • Online Services
    • Proxy Access
    • Test Results
    • Update your contact details
  • Surgery Information
    • Complaints Procedure
    • Friends and Family Test
    • Named Accountable GP
    • News
    • Newsletters
    • Opening Times
    • Our Team
    • Patient Participation Group
    • Practice Area
    • Practice Leaflet
    • Practice Performance
    • Practice Policies
  • Health Information & Support
    • Advice for Parents
    • Domestic Violence And Abuse
    • Find your NHS number
    • Health A to Z
    • Live Well
    • Local Groups
    • Medicines A to Z
    • NHS 111 Online
    • Prostate Cancer
    • Useful Contact Numbers
    • Useful Links
    • Weight Loss Injections
  • Contact Us
Home > Weight Loss Injections

Weight Loss Injections

Keeping You Informed 23rd June 2025 

NHS England has announced that from today Mounjaro and Ozempic is now available from GP services.

Our local NHS Commissioners, Kent & Medway ICB, have advised all practices that we cannot prescribe this at the moment. Therefore, with regret, any requests for these injections will be rejected as we have no control over this.

Please see clinical advice and guidance below and FAQ’s. 

Clinical advice and guidance

Access to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) through primary care

As you will be aware, NHS England is making tirzepatide (Mounjaro) available in a phased approached over the next few years. NICE guidelines say that in order to gain access to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) on the NHS, patients must also be referred on to a diet and exercise support programme.

Although it has been announced that it will become available in primary care settings from Monday, 23 June (for a specific patient cohort) arrangements are being made to mobilise a provider of the necessary Behavioural Support for Obesity Prescribing (BSOP) that is specified in the NICE guidelines.

Until this service is in place in Kent and Medway, it is not possible to prescribe tirzepatide (Mounjaro) in primary care.

Please also note there is no provider of tirzepatide (Mounjaro) available under right to choose.

We are aware that this situation may be difficult for practices to explain to patients. If you are approached, NHS England has produced answers to some frequently asked questions for patients.

Patient facing FAQs for tirzepatide (Mounjaro) extracted from NHS (DOCX, 29KB)

Last Updated 10 Jul 2025

Share

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Bluesky
  • X (Twitter)
  • LinkedIn
Local Services

Site

  • Sign In
  • Sitemap
  • Back To Top

About

  • Disclaimer
  • Website Privacy
  • Website Accessibility
  • Cookies
  • Content Attribution

Contact

The Shrubbery

65A Perry Street, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 8RD

  • 01474 356661
  • t.shrubbery@nhs.net

Riverview Park

1 Whinfell Way, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 4RX

  • 01474 363020
  • riverview.park@nhs.net
© Neighbourhood Direct Ltd  2025
Website supplied by Oldroyd Publishing Group

Loading...

Local Services