Does anybody know how shared care ADHD assessment works and can anybody recommend a good provider or know ones to avoid

[L3moncello]

My adult dc is on the NHS priority list. I’d rather she was diagnosed by the NHS for a variety of reasons not least complex mental health and other diagnoses but we just can’t wait anymore.

Look at the NICE guidelines for adult ADHD assessment. If you have to get a private assessment you could look for someone who is also currently or has recently been working in the NHS undertaking assessments, and who follows the NICE guidelines in their private practice. You want someone who will take time to understand and be curious about the overall picture/history.

That's just assessment.

Shared care normally relates to prescribing arrangements in the event of a) diagnosis and b) medication being relevant. A person doing an assessment is not necessarily also qualified to prescribe. You may want to find someone who can do both.

Shared care depends on whether your GP is prepared to enter into a shared care arrangement.

Thankyou
Do you know how shared care works?

Sorry I meant right to choose

Do you know if you are taken off the nhs wait list once you are put on your right to choose provider waiting list?

I wasn't aware there was a priority list, does that relate to the NHS or right to choose provider ?

If there's an assessment via right to choose like psychiatry UK and the GP doesn't agree to shared care it just means you stay with Psychiatry UK for medication rather than transitioning to GP following titration. This is what they told me when I checked what happens if you need to move GP's while in the process of assessment/titration.

But who pays for it?

NHS

How does it work? The priority list?

Shared care refers to the sharing of care between consultant and GP.

Adhd prescription medicine normally needs to be prescribed and supervised and reviewed regularly by a consultant, whether nhs or private.

Some GPs will accept "shared care" where they monitor the patient - take blood pressure etc and review medication. Some GPs will not.

With complex mental health and other diagnoses I'd say you are right to want joined-up care that will take her other diagnoses into account.

You need to contact your GP and ask if they will accept a shared care agreement. If there are complex mental health needs they may refuse if they feel they don't have the skills to support the prescription.
It's worth checking if a shared care agreement is possible before you pay for the assessment as if it's refused you have wasted the money and still need to wait for the NHS assessment.
If DC has been assessed as being a priority is that because they are detained under a section? If so do they have an advocate?

Do you know how right to choose works with all this? I’m so worried about her other diagnoses and complexities. The list I’ve seen of right to choose providers look shit .

But who pays for it?

@L3moncello not you (I checked that when I called)