Weight Loss Medication

You may have seen in the media that GP's are able to prescribe weight loss medication.

We haven't yet received the full information from Sussex Integrated Care Board (ICB) about how we can do this in practice, and are therefore not able to prescribe weight loss medication such as Mounjaro.

It’s important to understand that if we do start offering it at Avisford Medical Group, the NHS have created a very strict qualifying criteria for the first cohort:

Full qualifying criteria is a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 40 or greater and four or more of the following diagnosed health conditions:

• type 2 diabetes
• Hypertension
• Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
• Obstructive sleep apnoea
• Dyslipidaemia

Please do not call or come into our surgeries requesting this medication. We do not know when we will receive the information from the ICB to enable us to understand if and how we can manage this additional piece of work at Avisford Medical Group.

Thank you for your understanding.

Published: Jul 3, 2025