Shared care and ADHD referrals
Shared care prescribing
Shared Care Prescribing refers to medication which is started by a specialist, and continued by a GP practice, usually with regular monitoring or checks to ensure that it continues to be safe for you to have it. This applies for instance to disease-modifying drugs in many rheumatological conditions, to ADHD medications, and to some psychiatric medications also.
Full list of shared care medications approved by SWL, with relevant formsADHD diagnoses and sharing care
We are seeing increasing numbers of patients, understandably, seeking private diagnosis and review for suspected ADHD. We have therefore developed a practice policy outlining the circumstances under which we will agree to shared care with them.
Park Road ADHD shared care policyWe do not make ‘right to choose’ referrals to providers who in the past we have had difficulties with, usually either that:
- they have refused to accept normal referrals without requesting additional / inappropriate work from us
- they’ve asked us to carry out work they should be doing as part of the assessments, including ECGs or physical checks, and/or
- they’ve refused to complete shared care forms, leaving patients who’ve seen them unable to access prescriptions via us as their GP
We will advise you of this at the time a referral is requested if needed, and we do not refer to these providers as they are not providing a clinically appropriate service in our view.
