Adult ADHD assessment

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Has anyone had a private adult ADHD assessment and can anyone recommend a place to have one done in London or Home Counties?

The options are a bit overwhelming and the costs vary so much. Having finally clicked that this is likely to be the cause of so many problems I’d rather not wait for an NHS place (doctor not mad keen to refer - possibly due to my age) but cost is a factor.

Cant help OP but watching with interest as I’m in the same boat.

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I just had a zoom assessment with Clinical Partners. A shade under £700 and a really positive experience from start to finish. Good luck

Psychiatry UK.

Those who've done it, did you tell your GP first? And will it be possible to get prescription via GP eventually?

Psychiatry uk, and if in england you can get your gp to refer you and have their services on the nhs via right to choose - much quicker than the normal nhs route. They also offer private services.

psychiatry-uk.com/right-to-choose/

@Shirtyllama yes and yes, and can be entirely via nhs if gp refers you

Me! Psychiatry UK. Was diagnosed in March. I'll be 40 this year.
Medication and the knowledge that I'm not just weird is so amazing. Dr Stephen Ilyas if you go down the PUK route, has inattentive ADHD himself so knows what it's like. He diagnosed me and he's ace. I shudder to think how many hundreds of thousands of women have been missed/misdiagnosed. I'm going to make it my mission to campaign about it.

Psych UK currently have waiting lists for both private and NHS referrals, with a long 3-4 month wait between Dx and medication starting.

However they are the cheapest option at £360 for the initial app, titration fees for meds and script charges - you’ll have to shop around for a decent price on the meds, Boots are cheap.

If you go for titration with the consultant as I did then it can start straight away. Costs though.

@LysistrataVickers I started right away with a Nurse, however it was last summer before the surge. Luckily! And now my NHS Psych sorts it for me so I didn’t have to fork out for too long, around 3 months.

@MoesBar that's really good. It's awful that we have to pay in their first place. My GP refused to refer me to PsychUK (despite me telling them about right to choose etc) so I had to pay for my assessment. It's not fair on people who can't afford it and who would benefit from meds.

It's in the NICE guidelines that the GP has to refer you, as they are not experts and can't make the diagnosis themselves (including saying that you "don't have it" or "a diagnosis isn't useful")

Info and relevant downloads to print and show them:
aadduk.org/faq/

Sorry to hijack this thread but I'm in the same boat, I spoke to my doctor and gave up with a formal diagnosis as he said it would be unlikely I would be given and medication if diagnosed. Is it still possible as an adult to be given medication to help with adhd symptoms?

Your GP is a clueless gobshite.

Join UK Women with ADHD, they’ll point you in the right direction.

Hi where is the uk women with adhd? I've done a quick google search but not getting anything?!

I think it’s a FB group.

@MoesBar thank you! On it.