Family And General Practitioners
Dr Ide Delargy has been a practising GP since 1986 and has practised
in both the UK and Ireland. She is a Member of the Irish College of
General Practitioners of Ireland (MICGP) and also a Member of the Royal
College of General Practitioners in London (MRCGP). She has a special
interest in the area of substance misuse and has been the Director of
the Substance Misuse Programme at the ICGP since 1998. In this role she
has chaired an interagency working group on Drug Related Deaths which
reported in 2007 and also chaired the working group which produced best
practice guidelines on “Working with Opiate Users in the Primary Care
Setting”. She has represented the ICGP on the DOHC Benzodiazepine Expert
Group which produced best practice guidelines on benzodiazepine
prescribing in 2003. She is also the National GP Co-ordinator for the
HSE Addiction Service.
In 2007, she was appointed Chairperson of
the Sick Doctor Scheme which provides assessment, referral and support
for doctors with substance misuse problems. Dr Delargy has co-ordinated a
group of practitioners in developing a proposal for a Physician Health
Programme in Ireland.
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