FoI Number
2024-494
Subject
Weight Loss Injection
Date Received
12/11/2024
Request and Response
  1. How many admissions to hospitals in your region there have been since 2019 related to weight-loss injections? Broken down by year and gender please.

In accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested as a patient admission that is related to weight-loss injections is not information that is coded.

  1. What age was the youngest patient?

See response to Q1

  1. What age was the oldest patient?

See response to Q1

  1. How many of those were fatalities? Broken down by age (or decade 0-10, 11-20, 21-30,31-40), year and gender please.

See response to Q1

  1. How many admissions related to use of semaglutide (including brand names Wegovy and Ozempic)? Broken down by year and gender please

In accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested as that a patient admission is related to use of semaglutide is not information that is coded.

  1. How many admissions related to use of tirzepatide (including brand names Mounjaro) Broken down by year and gender please

In accordance with FOISA s 17(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it does not hold the information requested as that a patient admission is related to use of tirzepatide is not information that is coded.