How Do I Get A Prescription?

ADHD Direct is an assessment, diagnosis and treatment service of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, young people and adults.

Any decision to prescribe medication will always form part of a comprehensive, holistic shared treatment plan that addresses psychological, behavioural and occupational or educational needs

If you have been diagnosed with ADHD, we will always discuss our recommendations and at times this may mean that one such treatment option is medication

Medication can be prescribed in one of 2 ways.

Private Prescription

ADHD Direct can prescribe and monitor all ADHD Medication as part of a comprehensive package of care

This means that our Patients will pay for the cost of

the medication review appointment
a prescription processing fee

And on taking the prescription to your chosen Pharmacy, the Pharmacist will charge you for the cost of the medication itself
ADHD Direct partners' with the Private Pharmacy Group who will process Patient prescriptions and deliver them securely and directly to your chosen address

NHS Shared Care

The other option is to share care with your GP, this means that

the GP prescribes the medication as an NHS prescription

but ADHD direct take responsibility for the monitoring your response to treatment and seeing you for regular reviews.
We would also provide the prescribing advice to your GP. Please note that in ADHD Direct we will not prescribe any medication unless this information is shared with your NHS GP, this ensure safe prescribing and holistic joined up care across health care services.

Not all GPs will prescribe for patients attending private ADHD service or in fact for private services as a whole; and you will find that there will be a lot of variability in this

When we write to your GP, we do explain what our shared care service is, and how we will monitor you. We also given them information on the type of medications used and what our monitoring will be for each type of medication.

However, a GP is not obliged to prescribe on behalf of the Private ADHD Service and if they choose not to, then you will still be able to get your medication from ADHD Direct but at a private cost

For these GPs who will prescribe for you, we write to them regularly with updates to ensure them of your ongoing monitoring and care.