Bobby Frazier said she has been left in 'limbo' after discovering she could be waiting 10 years for an ADHD assessment on the NHS luciemheath reports
A 28-year-old woman has been told by her doctor she could be waiting for up to 10 years to receive anBobby Frazier, who lives in Evesham, Worcestershire, first approached her GP about her potential ADHD a few months ago after “struggling” with mental health issues for her “whole adult life”.
“I’ve been going to the doctors for my mental health for over a decade,” she said, adding that she was “just constantly palmed off with antidepressants and stuff for years”.She then began to read about the condition online and said she noticed a lot of similarities with her own behaviour., she received an email from her doctor, seen by“There is no way I’m going to go 10 years,” she said. “It’s not going to happen.
Ms Frazier decided to seek a referral for an ADHD assessment via the right to choose, a process that sees the NHS pay a private clinic to assess a patient. She was in the process of filling out the paperwork when private ADHD clinics were thrust into the spotlight last week following aThe programme uncovered examples of multiple clinics that it said were prescribing powerful medication to individuals without carrying out the proper checks.
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