Diabetes

Amardip Virdi bought the “entire stock” of Ozempic at a pharmacy where he was working during a national shortage to supply it to private weight loss customers, the GPhC’s investigating committee has found.

A Lloydspharmacy worker who stole Ozempic from the Widnes pharmacy she worked at has been given a suspended sentence of 29 weeks in prison.

A “thorough review” by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has found that evidence “does not support” a link between suicidal ideation and diabetes and weight management drug semaglutide. 

The DH has said that patients with type two diabetes can be initiated on or switched to alternative treatments amid ongoing shortages of semaglutide and other GLP-1 RAs.

A pharmacy technician has been struck off the register for reselling stolen blood sugar tests on eBay and for breaching GDPR by storing “thousands” of prescriptions in her car boot, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has revealed. 

Prescribing and dispensing organisations must limit prescriptions to licensed indications only and switch some patients from the injection pens to tablets by March, the government has said. 

The government has instructed pharmacists to advise patients using a certain strength of Tresiba® pre-filled insulin pens following a shortage of an alternative strength.  

Counterfeit Ozempic injection pens have been intercepted at two UK wholesalers, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has revealed.

As many as one in 20 new diabetes cases could be linked to COVID infection, a large study has concluded.

Boots has announced that it will pilot a new private service for diabetes screening from May.