We are pleased that the conference of local medical committees carried Lucy Clement’s motion calling for better provision of services for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in England.1 We hope the same applies to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
We support primary care receiving resources (including access to specialist advice in case of any problems) to perform monitoring and annual reviews, as described in the motion. But NHS capacity …
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Local general practice leaders have called for urgent action to tackle chronic underfunding of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) services in England.
The annual conference of England’s local medical committees (LMCs) in London on 23 November carried a motion demanding that NHS England remedy a situation that has seen NHS services for ADHD across all ages starved of funding, creating huge waiting lists and barriers to accessing care.
The motion was proposed by Lucy Clement of Leeds LMC, who described her own experience of having ADHD diagnosed four years ago. She said that ADHD services had been “shamefully …