La carità prepara una sfida legale dopo che NHS Trust fa una pausa referral ADHD per i 25 anni
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/07/adhd-nhs-trust-pauses-over-25s-referrals-coventry-and-warwickshire-charity-legal-challenge
di acrimoniousone
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So you pay part of your paycheck to NHS and now you’ll need to pay part of it for private health insurance. XD
For all the stuff I’ve had to go private for in this country, probably should have stayed in the USA. Not seeing much of a difference.
A recent article from Copenhagen University found that the tests for adult ADHD are possibly not fit for purpose as they were designed for children and the rigour of clinical trials has been extremely poor.
Given the waiting lists are already upward of 4 years in some areas and increasing this probably changes very little
Isn’t this a good thing when you take the bigger picture into account?
Labour is dedicated to staying course on the continuing non-strategy of the previous government – doing whatever the donors want regardless of public opinion – and will keep at this non-strategy right up until the protest vote puts Farage in number 10 and maybe even afterwards. Anybody seeking treatment in such an environment has a 50/50 chance of being eventually rounded up, around 2029 or so, by the America-worshipping government of the future for disposal.
Maybe it’s time to just decriminalised the drugs adhd sufferers use to self medicate.
Adhd people have been the (or one of the) most unfairly criminalised group due to the legal restrictions on the substances which help them. So many have gone to prison for just wanting something that makes them normal.
This is literally SOP for the NHS and it is very sensible.
Wasn’t that long ago an NHS doctor (or jumped-up physician associate, I don’t know) told me the NHS wouldn’t accept my private autism diagnosis, despite said diagnosis being good enough for a company prescribing medicinal cannabis alongside the NHS to accept that diagnosis in place of some requested NHS referral form (and a committee of their doctors deciding “this man could do with drugs”).
I don’t know what it’s like for ADHD, but even a quarter or a half of a 10mg gummy does wonders to stop me getting stuck in my own head (and makes sexual pleasure more powerful, which is likely the real reason we’re not allowed to freely buy THC).
My work’s own Occupational Health doctor even said to me “We would rather you be on antidepressants instead of cannabis,” and all I could think of at the time was “Yeah, I fucking bet you would.”
The borough where I live in London doesn’t appear to even have adult ADHD services so this is some way better than them