NHS: Anti-obesity Medication

I have recently become a user of a weight-loss injection, on medical advice and in order to improve my diabetic control. Does the Minister not think that we need to move on from the current short-term system of assessing the value of drugs to a much longer-term consideration of cost-benefit analysis measured over some decades, taking into account the benefits of things such as improving health and emotional well-being, reducing the costs of other NHS treatments, including for depression and anxiety, and considering in the long run the benefits of more people paying HMRC and fewer needing support from the DWP?

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