Eating disorders: 50 patients on waiting list for treatment at new centre

Minister with Responsibility for Mental Health, Mary Butler, has said that €1.5m was ringfenced in the 2022 budget for the national clinical programme for eating disorders.

A centre for eating disorders which opened a year ago has just taken in its first six in-patients. Another 50 patients are also on a waiting list for treatment.

The National Eating Disorder Recovery Centre in Ballsbridge in Dublin had been lying idle since last April until the first tranche of in-patients began treatment at the facility two weeks ago.