At least 500,000 people in the UK take either Mounjaro or Wegovy, another weight-loss jab, through private prescriptions

Eli Lilly will raise the UK list price of its weight-loss and type 2 diabetes treatment Mounjaro by up to 170% to be in line with other European markets, it said on Thursday, as the pharma industry responds to U.

The manufacturers of a new weight-loss drug recently rolled out by the NHS are upping their prices by 170%. Eli Lilly is increasing the price of Mounjaro, which is also used to treat type 2 diabetes, in the UK from September. It comes amid a White House push to get drug makers to raise their prices overseas in order to cut prices in the US.