Three routes: NHS, Right to Choose or private?
A personal guide to the main routes, costs, shared care, regulation and what happens after diagnosis.
- By
- Peter Corkhill · Content Editor
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- About 16 minutes
- Reviewed
- September 2026
THE ADHD JUNCTION LIBRARY
PRACTICAL TOOLS
Use one tool or move between them. There is no required order.
ADULT SCREENER
Six established questions that may help you decide whether further exploration is worth considering. It cannot diagnose ADHD.
Open the screener → 02PRIVATE REFLECTION
Collect ordinary-life examples across time and settings before a GP conversation or assessment.
Open the interactive record → 03COMPARISON
Compare routes, clinicians, reports, first-year costs, medication arrangements and Shared Care.
Open the checklist → 04PREPARATION
Organise practical details, what to have ready, questions to ask and what you are told afterwards.
Open the checklist → 05NHS DATA · EXPLAINED
Understand the experimental national data, its limits and why referrals are not the same as people waiting.
Read the explanation →LONG-FORM GUIDES
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