questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered the potential merits of expanding the range of qualified healthcare professionals able to carry out neurodevelopmental diagnoses in cases where a patient is already under the care of a clinician with the relevant expertise, but that clinician is not currently permitted to provide a formal diagnosis; what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing suitably qualified clinicians already involved in a patient’s care to undertake ADHD and autism assessments including to help reduce waiting times and to support assessment services; and whether he has had discussions with integrated care boards on enabling appropriately qualified clinicians to carry out neurodevelopmental assessments to increase the level of assessment capacity in (a) Hampshire and (b) nationally.
answerText: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has regular discussions on a wide range of matters.The Government has recognised that, nationally in England, demand for assessments for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...
heading: Neurodiversity: Diagnosis