Update regarding Weight Loss Injections – August 2025

Please see the below leaflet regarding any request for Weight Loss Injections via the NHS. 

Weight loss injections – Patient Enquiry Q&A

We can refer to Oviva UK via the NHS Right to Choose service, please see this link for more information, and if you would like referring and you meet the below eligibility requirements please contact the surgery to make an appointment with the nurse for height/weight and blood tests. Please note we will not be responsible for the prescribing of any weight loss injections that Oviva may choose to prescribe. Thank you.

Oviva Eligibility Criteria
The patient has a BMI ≥50kg/m2*

OR

The patient has a BMI of at least 40 kg/m2* and has engaged with community weight services over a 2-year period but has failed to achieve or maintain weight loss goals.

OR

The patient has a BMI of at least 35 kg/m2* and has one or more weight related co-morbidities and has engaged with community weight services over a 2-year period but has failed to achieve or maintain weight loss goals

(applicable co-morbidities below)

  • Established cardiovascular disease
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Hypertension
  • Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
  • Obstructive sleep apnoea
  • Non- alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)

*There is a tolerance unit of BMI 2.5 on each element of the criteria above in relation to at-risk groups that have higher obesity prevalence rates particularly those with black African or Caribbean and South Asian origin.
Exclusion Criteria
• Patients under 18 years old.
• Patients who are currently successfully losing weight with dietetic or reputable evidence-based weight management intervention.
• Pregnant women – Women becoming pregnant during the programme will be able to pause the programme (‘time out policy’) and return to the service following the birth.
• Patients who have been previously referred into the service and have left the pathway early or have disengaged from the services, who are seeking to re-enter as a re-referral will not be eligible within 24 months.
• Patients with uncontrolled hypertension/heart condition/medical condition preventing increase in activity level.
• Patients with unstable or severe mental illness beyond the expertise of primary care.
• Patients with active eating disorders.
• Patients who have made suicide attempts within the last year.
• Patients who have self-harmed in the past 3 months.
• Patients who have made plans to commit suicide in the past 3 months.
• Patients who have had bariatric surgery.