Want an ADHD diagnosis? You'll now have to wait TEN YEARS for an appointment, warns NHS Trust READ MORE: Children with autism going undiagnosed for YEARS, report warns By John Ely Deputy Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 07:09 EDT, 16 October 2024 | Updated: 07:09 EDT, 16 October 2024 e-mail View comments Britain's ADHD crisis has taken another dramatic turn with an NHS clinic closing its doors to new patients due to a colossal 10-year long waiting list. NHS Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust announced it was 'temporarily' closing its ADHD service for adults in a shocking move earlier this week. In a statement the Trust said it can only see about 16 people every month but was currently receiving 170 referrals in that same time.
This means the Trust is currently being assigned 10 times the number of patients it can realistically see, or put another way, a patient referred today would effectively be forced to wait a decade before being seen on the NHS. The move has sparked fears more patients desperate for diagnosis will go to the private sector, which experts have warned is more willing to diagnose people with ADHD and set them up to take powerful medications. Fascinating graphs show how ADHD prescriptions have risen over time, with the patient demographic shifting from children to adults with women in particular now driving the increase Your browser does not support iframes.
It also comes at a time when prescriptions for ADHD have soared, doubling in six ye.