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Home | ADHD & Right to Choose
You have a right to choose, in life, in your hobbies, but importantly, in terms of your healthcare. In terms of ADHD, patient choice, now often referred to as Right to Choose, offers a pathway to care, and to the treatment you can access.
To quote the NHS Patient Choice Guidance:
“The changes in law that have given patients with mental health conditions the same legal rights as they have had in physical health services are significant steps towards parity. They are part of the more significant shift to increase the direct control patients have over their care and every one of us working in mental health has a part to play to help implement these rights and make them work well for patients.”
The very essence of the NHS is to offer free healthcare at the point of need, and sadly, for many reasons, ADHD has been overlooked and not truly planned for in terms of commissioning healthcare. Our nation just hasn’t appreciated the nature, the impact and the demand for services correlated to ADHD.
However, the availability of choice was formally adopted in England by the NHS in 2014. This affords you some opportunities that you may not be aware of:
Choice is also a consideration in multiple priorities within the NHS in terms of long-term planning and elective care recovery as a result of the COVID-19 outpatient and elective care backlog; Choice is a principle, a value, and is covered by promises and pledges within the NHS Constitution.
As we explore those rights, it is important to inform you that ADHD 360 are:
Searching the term ‘Right to Choose’ on the internet returns around 14,570,000,000 results, and even trying to narrow this search down by searching ‘Right to Choose ADHD’, still returns approximately 88,100,000 results on Google. This is reflected in the search trends since the Choice based referral pathway was introduced in 2014. Google Trends ranks search terms in ‘Interest Over Time’ which is ranked as 0 to 100 (100 being ‘peak popularity’ for a searched phrase). In August 2014 ‘Right to Choose’ was ranked at 17, in June and July 2024, its most popular months, it ranked at 100.
The rise of information through the internet, yes there was life before the internet and social media, has given more and more people information and awareness. We need to ensure that information, as it is processed into ‘fact’, is based on truth and an appropriate reality.
We have prepared this simple list to help you understand what the entitlement to your choice is:
Inclusion criteria for initial right to choose referrals. You do have a legal entitlement to choose your ADHD provider if…
There are some exclusions to your eligibility for your ADHD based Right to Choose. These are important. You do not have the legal entitlement to make an ADHD provider choice if you are...
ADHD 360 has a dedicated, specialist team who are trained to help with all incoming Right to Choose referrals and enquiries.
This team also supports our team of clinicians to ensure that our patients receive the appropriate, specialist support and advice. The RtC team’s main responsibilities are:
In the autumn of 2024, ADHD 360 will be available on the NHS E-Referral Service, in the interim we have made ‘all reasonable endeavours’ to ensure that our services are available under the RtC pathway and are advertised fully and accessible on our dedicated Right to Choose web page.
Here you can also download our referral documents to present to your GP when requesting a referral. These include an age-appropriate screening tool that can inform the validity of the referral, (SNAP-IV for those 15 and under, and ASRS for those 16 and over), and a waiting list risk assessment to ensure we are aware of any mental health and lifestyle information.
You complete the screening and waiting list risk assessment, and your GP completes the remainder of the referral form/checklist. Your GP surgery is then responsible for sending the documents to ADHD 360. They MUST come from your GP, otherwise we are unable to accept the referral. Please check that they have sent your referral a few days after you visit or make the request of your GP.
Proudly, ADHD 360 focuses on maintaining a maximum of 18 weeks between your referral being received and your onboarding invitation being sent. You will be contacted by text message and, if provided, by email to complete the onboarding questionnaires and To Do list which will allow you to book the most convenient assessment date for you, once completed.
This assessment preparation generally takes under an hour. However, we recommend doing this with a close friend, partner, or family member, and setting aside that hour or so to complete the exercise. You will be asked to fill out a set of questions with answers about your health, symptoms, your motivation to be assessed, your family health record, your sleep pattern (this is more important than people realise!), your mood, and your dietary and lifestyle habits.
We will send you a blood pressure machine for you to keep, and exclusively for you to use. We ask that you use it regularly to upload your blood pressure (BP) and pulse into your portal; before your initial assessment, and at each follow-up appointment, should you receive a positive diagnosis. We will also ask for details of your height and weight, as it is important that we monitor your physical health as we treat you.
That may all sound like a lot, but we want to reassure you that we have put all of our efforts into making sure it isn’t. We have received frequent praise from our patients for the simplicity of this prep’ phase using our portal. Please recognise the importance of these prep’ questionnaires, and it is confirmation that your assessment for your ADHD is finally on its way, and things, after all this time, are moving for you.
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