ADHD UK and experts condemn proposal as rationing
2 Sep 17 · 6d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 6 comments · 3 sources · development 2 of 2
ADHD UK's chief executive Henry Shelford attacks the proposals as rationing healthcare. Experts warn the system will introduce service rationing and push children and adults toward self-diagnosis via social media rather than formal medical assessment.
“Without a formal diagnosis, it appears we will be left to self-diagnose via social media.”
Henry Shelford, chief executive of ADHD UKProf Peter Fonagy Lead of government ADHD/autism/mental health reviewHenry Shelford Chief executive of ADHD UK
Wes Streeting Former health secretary
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1 outlet Plan to limit number of NHS patients diagnosed with ADHD attacked as ‘rationing’ healthcare
first by Guardian, 6d ago
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Firstly, let’s not be derogatory about the pharmaceutical support offered to those with ADHD. They don’t get “pills” but medicine, specifically medicine specified in the NICE guidelines which are put together by experts. Secondly, you’re not actually supporting the argument you think you are. You start by making a clearly bias and uniformed…
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Another move away from supporting people. Without a formal diagnosis children won't get support at school, and adults won't get any needed adjustments at work. It's not unexpected, successive governments in recent years have fed stories about benefit fraud, about 'too many' claimants, and recently about the cost of support for SEND students to a…
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The problem continues to be scale though. Additional support at schools, quiet spaces, therapeutic roots - all expensive, in many cases subject to postcode lottery, and just shifts the queue from one place to another. It’s potentially worse for adults. Employers aren’t exactly going to bring in additional support, Job Centres are overrun with…
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They already do to an extent. I have ADHD, was diagnosed as a kid and treated until I turned 18 where they told me if I wanted to stop taking medication it would have to be done alongside taking away my statement. A couple of years ago I tried to get my statement back and was told that I didn’t qualify for diagnosis because I wasn’t destitute and…
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Sadly there are countries where this happens. The insurance companies pull a number out of nowhere and decide that that's the amount of treatments per financial year authorised. So you really should've consulted the charts and spreadsheets, and thought about the dividends the shareholders expect first before you went and selfishly got colon cancer.
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And so it begins. Any attempts to reform failing systems in this country come with howls of protest. Severe cases should rightly be identified and prioritised for care, and more mild cases dealt with differently. Everyone is so worried about losing out on the perks and benefits they can get, they try to block it.
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We ration care all over the NHS - we can't afford for everyone to have the best possible care.
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