It starts with a consultation
Nothing is prescribed without one.
Medications
Wegovy Pill
(Oral semaglutide)
Once-daily oral tabletDaily oral semaglutide, with a specific morning routine and individual clinical supervision.
Your care pathway
How treatment works here
A careful clinical assessment
A doctor reviews your medical history, current medicines, conditions and the factors driving your weight before any treatment is recommended.
Where treatment is appropriate
It is prescribed following your consultation. In the UK, treatment is dispensed by a licensed pharmacy and delivered to your address anywhere in the UK. In Chennai, it is collected in person from the clinic.
Reviewed before every supply
Nothing is issued on repeat without review. Before each supply you tell us how you are getting on, and a doctor reviews how you are responding, how you are tolerating treatment and anything that has changed before deciding.
What's Included
Your Wegovy Pill Prescription Includes
Doctor-reviewed prescription
Every prescription follows individual review by a doctor and stays under ongoing clinical supervision.
Live online sessions with Dr Raj
Patients are invited to regular online education evenings and live Q&A sessions, covering nutrition, muscle preservation, managing side effects and planning for the long term.
Support between appointments
You can tell us about side effects or concerns at any point between consultations, not only at your next appointment.
How you receive your treatment
In the UK, dispensed by a licensed pharmacy and delivered to your door anywhere in the UK with tracked delivery. In Chennai, collected in person from the clinic.
About the Medication
What is Wegovy Pill?
Wegovy Pill is oral semaglutide, taken once daily rather than injected weekly. It is considered alongside nutrition, activity and ongoing clinical review.
The tablet has specific fasting, water and waiting instructions. Following them consistently helps the medicine be absorbed; it is not taken like an ordinary breakfast tablet.
Tablet and injection doses are not equivalent milligram for milligram. Do not combine them or switch between them without a prescribing plan.
How Does It Work?
Absorption through the stomach
The tablet combines semaglutide with an absorption enhancer. An empty stomach, a small sip of plain water and the waiting interval help the medicine reach the bloodstream.
A daily oral route
The tablet is taken once daily, not weekly. Consistent administration matters, and tablet doses cannot be substituted for injection doses.
Individual clinical monitoring
A doctor reviews your response, tolerability and other medicines as doses increase. The oral route changes how treatment is taken, not the need for ongoing care.
Taking the tablet
A considered morning routine
Take the tablet on an empty stomach after an overnight fast, using the measured amount of plain water specified in your prescription leaflet. Wait at least thirty minutes before anything else.
- Once dailyTake one tablet daily exactly as prescribed, after fasting for at least eight hours.
- Measured plain waterUse only the amount of plain water specified in the supplied leaflet. Swallow whole; do not split, crush or chew.
- Wait thirty minutesWait at least thirty minutes before food, other drinks or other oral medicines.
- Review other medicinesAgree a workable morning timetable with your pharmacist or prescriber, especially for medicines with their own fasting instructions.
- Individual dose planYour prescription sets the starting dose and any increases. Do not substitute an injection dose or change the plan yourself.
Clinical Evidence
How Effective is Wegovy Pill?
In the OASIS 4 trial, adults with overweight or obesity taking oral semaglutide 25mg alongside lifestyle support lost significantly more weight than those on placebo over 64 weeks. Averages describe study groups, not individuals.
14%
Average reduction at 64 weeks
2%
Placebo
64 wks
Time on treatment
25mg
Dose studied
OASIS 4, 307 participants. A higher figure of 16.6% has also been reported for the same trial under a different analysis; the more conservative figure is used here.
Dosing
How Do You Take Wegovy Pill?
Wegovy tablets start at 1.5 mg once daily. The licensed schedule increases to 4 mg, 9 mg and then 25 mg, after at least one month at each dose level, with changes directed by your doctor.
Take the tablet whole after fasting for at least eight hours, with a small sip of plain water. Wait at least thirty minutes before food, drinks or other oral medicines. Follow the leaflet supplied with your prescription.
Do not change your dose unless your doctor has told you to.
Available Doses
1.5 mg
4 mg
9 mg
25 mg
These are tablet doses, not injection equivalents. Do not combine formulations, change dose or switch routes without your prescribing doctor’s advice.
Who Qualifies?
- Adults meeting the licensed weight-management criteria
- Medical history and current medicines reviewed by a doctor
- Able to follow the daily fasting and waiting routine
- Not pregnant, breastfeeding or planning pregnancy
Book a consultation
Discuss your care with the clinic that is right for you.
Potential Side Effects
Like all medicines, Wegovy Pill may cause side effects. Most are mild and settle as your body adjusts. Seek urgent medical help for severe, persistent abdominal pain, especially if it spreads to the back, with or without vomiting.
NauseaVomitingDiarrhoeaConstipationReduced appetiteFatigueIndigestionHeadache
Always read the Patient Information Leaflet. Contact your clinic or your doctor with any concerns.
Read the Wegovy Pill patient information leafletSpecialist Indications
Oral semaglutide within weight care
Your clinical assessment considers your health, other medicines and whether the daily fasting routine is workable. Tablet-specific benefits and risks are reviewed rather than assumed from injection studies.
Complex severe obesity
Weight care that considers the interacting drivers of obesity.
Read the condition pageWhere Wegovy Pill fits: An oral option considered within an individual plan, with nutrition, activity and monitoring rather than medication alone.
Published evidence
Where Wegovy Pill fits: Where prescribed for weight management, diabetes medicines and glucose monitoring are reviewed. Wegovy tablets are not a substitute for your diabetes care plan.
Published evidence
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) can affect weight and reproductive health.
Read the condition pageWhere Wegovy Pill fits: May be considered for weight management when licensed criteria are met, not as an approved PCOS treatment. Pregnancy plans and contraception need review.
Published evidence
Menopause and weight change
Midlife changes deserve a wider health assessment.
Read the condition pageWhere Wegovy Pill fits: Considered for eligible weight management alongside muscle health, nutrition and menopausal symptoms; it is not a treatment for menopause itself.
Published evidence
Where Wegovy Pill fits: Weight management may form part of liver care, but evidence from injected semaglutide must not be assumed to establish a liver indication for the tablet.
Published evidence
Maintenance after weight loss
Long-term care matters after weight has changed.
Read the condition pageWhere Wegovy Pill fits: Review response, nutrition and ongoing treatment needs with a doctor. Continuing or stopping treatment requires an individual plan.
Published evidence
More than a prescription
The Specialist Weight Management Plan
The Specialist Weight Management Plan is our most intensive option for the most complex cases. Dr Raj recommends it after your initial consultation where it is the right level of support. Not everyone needs it. For others, consultations and review alone are enough, and what you are offered depends on what is actually going on.
Wegovy Pill FAQs
From the clinic
Clinical Insights
Medication
Why do injections and tablets work differently?
Many peptide medicines are injected because digestive enzymes can break them down and the gut may absorb them poorly; injection allows the medicine to enter the body by a different route. Some peptides have specially formulated oral versions, so the route and dose are medicine-specific and should not be interchanged without medical advice.
Medication
What dose of Wegovy will you need?
The dose of Wegovy depends on whether you use the weekly injection or daily tablet, how long you have been taking it and how well you tolerate it. A doctor sets gradual increases and reviews your response; the two formulations are not equivalent milligram for milligram and should not be substituted yourself.
Medication
Why do these medicines slow your stomach, and can you prevent it?
GLP-1 medicines slow stomach emptying, which can cause nausea, fullness, constipation, or, rarely, more serious motility problems; symptoms are not always preventable. Eat smaller meals and follow the prescriber's advice, and seek urgent assessment for severe persistent pain, repeated vomiting, or inability to keep fluids down.
Medication
How do you prevent semaglutide side effects?
Side effects cannot always be prevented; taking dose increases only as prescribed, eating smaller meals and drinking enough may ease common digestive symptoms. Contact your prescriber for persistent vomiting or difficulty eating or drinking, and get urgent care for severe abdominal pain, allergic symptoms or sudden vision changes.
Medication
What should you know before starting Wegovy?
Wegovy contains semaglutide and is prescribed for weight management when a doctor confirms it is appropriate. The injection is weekly and the tablet is daily, with different dose schedules and instructions; neither should be started, combined or switched without a prescribing plan.
Complex severe obesity
Why doesn't weight-loss medication work for everyone?
People vary in their response to semaglutide, and limited weight change does not necessarily mean they are biologically 'resistant.' Dose and duration, missed doses, other medicines, health conditions and individual biology can matter; review progress with a prescriber before changing treatment.
Let's find out what's right for you
Treatment is one option among several, and which one suits you depends on your history, your other conditions and what has been tried before. That is what the consultation is for.