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Chair: Dr Maeve Moran
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Vice Chair: Dr Hami Sadi
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]The Faculty represents the interests of psychiatrists working with people with learning disabilities. Members of the Faculty aim to provide a quality mental health service to people with a learning disability in Ireland.
Dates of upcoming meetings in 2023
- Friday, 13th January @10am
- Friday, 21st April @10am
- Friday, 15th September @10am
- Friday, 15th December @10am
Meetings take place online via zoom video conferencing.
College Faculty/SIG and committee meetings can garner 1 internal or external CPD credit per meeting up to a maximum of 10 credits per PCS year.
To contact the faculty
To contact the faculty or if you would like to join, please email Helen Murray, hmurray@irishpsychiatry.ie or call (01) 6618450.
Useful Links
- HIQA regulation of social care and healthcare services 2016 Overview – April 2017
- HIQA Executive Summary – Exploring the regulation of health and social care services in Disability and Older People’s Services – March 2017
- HIQA Report – Exploring the regulation of health and social care services in Disabilty Services – March 2017
- Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017
- National Safeguarding Committee website
- NICE Guidelines on mental health problems in people with learning disabilities: prevention, assessment and management – September 2016
- Psychotropic drug prescribing for people with intellectual disability, mental health problems and / or behaviours that challenge: practice guidelines – RCPsych Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability – April 2016
- The NICE Guidelines for Challenging Behaviour in UK – May 2015
Proposals from the Faculty
Faculty Position Papers, Publications and Statements
- Challenging Behaviour and Intellectual Disabilities Sept 2016 – College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Position Paper
- A Guidance Document in Dementia in Persons with Intellectual Disability February 2014 – College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Faculty of Learning Disability Paper
- Mental Health Provision for Children with a Learning Disability September 2011, College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Position Paper
- 5th Anniversary of A Vision for Change: ‘Excluded, Expelled, Exported’ January 2011 – College of Psychiatrists of Ireland report on the out of state places for people with learning disabilities
- Comments of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Learning Disability to A Vision for Change, The Report of the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy July 2006
- Response of the Faculty of Learning Disability Psychiatry, Irish College of Psychiatrists to the Report of the Inspector of Mental Health Services 2005
- People with a Learning Disability who Offend:Forgiven but Forgotten? – May 2005 – Irish College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Learning Disability Working group
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