Waiting list of 2.5 years for weight loss treatments

Waiting times for the country’s only two public weight treatment services are over two-and-a-half years, with almost 1,500 waiting simply to get an outpatient appointment.

This is at a time when the Government says it has made obesity a public health priority and as it prepares to publish an Obesity Policy and Action Plan.

In April, a report in The Lancet claimed Ireland and the UK were set to become the most obese countries in Europe within a decade.