Dr Ide Delargy, a general practitioner in Dublin, has been described by many of her colleagues in all branches of healthcare as truly ‘the loveliest of lifesavers’.

A GP Principal in Blackrock, County Dublin, Dr Delargy is Provost and Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners Republic of Ireland Faculty, National GP Co-Ordinator of Addiction Treatment Services with the HSE, former Director of the Substance Misuse Programme at the Irish College of General Practitioners, and founder and medical director of the Practitioner Health Matters Programme, Ireland’s first free independent treatment programme for healthcare professionals (which helped 113 of her colleagues in 2024).

In this episode, Dr Delargy recalls a happy musical and sporting childhood in Dublin, her GP training in Sligo and West Yorkshire, her first substantive posts in Wakefield and Glasgow, and how and why she came to develop a special interest in substance misuse practice and policy development. She also explains how her Diplomas in Leadership and Conflict Resolution proved invaluable in her professional and college work, as well as in caring for - and effectively assisting - so many of her colleagues in their hour of need.

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