Dr Harriet Treacy

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · How can tech offer solutions for obesity and weight management? · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

The Brits, and I have a dual passport, so I can speak about them that way, but they're not used to paying for healthcare, right?

So...

They are used to accessing the NHS.

And this is the first time I think we've ever seen in the UK where people are willing to pay at such fast rates and at such large sums of money to get access.

So it kind of speaks to the size of the problem.

It speaks to the impact of the problem.

People are willing to pay for this.

Ireland actually hasn't done too bad relative to its counterparts in terms of treating obesity as a disease.

We were one of the first European countries to adopt the Canadian guidelines.

So Canadian guidelines for every condition has a set of guidelines like...

that you have to follow when you're treating a disease.

And Ireland was up there with other European counterparts.

I think they were second to Italy in terms of actually developing them.

So we do recognise it as a disease.

We do treat it as disease.

And that's, I suppose, testament to, as a country, our ability to adopt the latest developments and the latest understandings of disease.

So I think that's been great.

In terms of how we actually deliver healthcare, I think we're a little bit behind globally.

So, you know, the use of telemedicine is far lagging the likes of the States and even the UK.

So about 80% of the prescriptions written for online obesity medications in the UK are coming from online providers.

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