GP has just decided not to continue shared care for DD’s nhs diagnosed adhd meds

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What do we do?

GPs don’t have to agree to shared care. NHS diagnosis or not. That applies to all medications where shared care applies, not just ADHD medication. In these cases, the specialist should prescribe.

That’s a ridiculous thing to say. The only reason a GP should decline shared care is if they feel the service who diagnosed wasn’t monitoring properly. As such they are inferring the highly qualified leading NHS consultant and NHS department that diagnosed, prescribed and are monitoring aren’t doing their job properly.

Other NHS departments diagnose all sorts of meds that GPs share care with.

You can think it is ridiculous all you want. It is true. That isn’t the only reason a GP can decline shared care. As I said, they do not have to agree. That doesn’t just apply to ADHD medication. It applies to all drugs which involve shared care. For example, certain rheumatology and dermatology drugs fall the under shared care protocol and some GPs won’t agree to shared care for certain ones.

What reason did they give?

Advice from the trust but when I looked at where they quoted this isn’t the case for NHS patients. CMHT have said they are having issues with this particular practise with other meds too.

Can you move to a different practice?