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    La spesa per l’ADHD del servizio sanitario nazionale supera il budget di 164 milioni di sterline a causa del boom delle cliniche non regolamentate


    La spesa per l’ADHD del servizio sanitario nazionale supera il budget di 164 milioni di sterline a causa del boom delle cliniche non regolamentate

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/nhs-england-overspending-adhd-millions-under-regulated-private-clinics

    di EnigmaticEmir

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    1. consulent-finanziar on

      It feels like a predictable outcome when demand keeps rising but oversight and long term planning don’t keep pace, leaving the system to absorb the cost after the fact.

    2. draenog_ on

      It’s worth bearing in mind that demand is so high right now because there’s been an increase in awareness of the condition, and, given that we only really started diagnosing ADHD in children in the 1990s, there’s a huge backlog of adults who were either missed entirely or who didn’t meet the stereotypical childhood presentation that was best understood in the 1990s.

      ADHD services need extra funding for the time being to meet that demand until the backlog is cleared.

    3. IsyABM on

      The service is a shambles and is costing the state but also the lives of vulnerable people. It’s turned into a money spinner.

    4. limaconnect77 on

      https://bjgp.org/content/73/733/358

      There’s a clear issue with over-diagnosis and very casual self-diagnosis.

      Probably, unfortunately, loads of children out there whose parents/guardians have already diagnosed them with ADHD based off of some bullshit TikTok videos.

    5. kseenfootage_o934 on

      Can speak from personal experience that the NHS waiting list for diagnosis is insane.

      I am in my 30’s and got diagnosed with ADHD last summer. It’s something that I have struggled with all of my life but because I don’t have an overly hyperactive exterior side, I got diagnosed later in life.

      I went private due to the NHS waiting list being horrendous. I got diagnosed and now have prescription medication called Elvanse. However, my diagnosis cost thousands of pounds and my medication costs about £150 a month.

      I tried to get my medication passed over to the NHS but it got denied due to the high amount of private diagnosis currently happening.

      This means I have to pay £150 a month for medication that has made my life a lot easier and happier while having to wait up to possibly five years for an NHS diagnosis just to have my medication on prescription.

    6. quantum_splicer on

      Is it really overspending when historically the condition has been under assessed, under diagnosised and under treated; this has been known since before 2010. I recall untreated ADHD costs the economy 17 billion annually.

      If you consider the compounding benefit to society if we actually started treating ADHD properly more than an decade.

      The fact of the matter is ADHD treatment has been historically neglected and this is the cost you either spread the cost across an decade where :

      (a) An cross section of the ADHD population up lifts the economy when they get access to treatment.

      (b) The benefit compounds year on year because percentage of the adult cohort getting treatment should go up.

      Or you neglect ADHD treatment for an decade and you end up paying substantial costs especially during an age where the cognitive demands in society have gone up making adaptive masking more challenging for those untreated.

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