ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
A growing number of GPs are tightening the rules for patients who obtain private diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder before returning to the NHS for prescriptions. Waiting lists of more than a decade in some areas have pushed more patients to seek private ADHD assessments before entering into so-called shared-care agreements between specialists and NHS GPs.
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Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK, warned that the dropping of shared care was dangerous for patients facing uncertainty over their medication, adding that it was “hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.
He estimated thousands of patients had lost their shared care agreements in recent months. “We have average waits of eight years for a diagnosis . . . and now we see GPs refusing or dropping our medical care.
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