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Psychiatry-UK 2024-05-09 Person 4 5 0

I had my 8 year old daughter assessed for ADHD. For diagnosis of children, I would definitely not recommend this online service. It is vital that children are seen and observed in their setting, in person. We were given a diagnosis by a Psychiatry-uk consultant for our child of ADHD. We were advised that no signs of ASD were observed and probably not worth getting an assessment for ASD. We were offered medication, which luckily I did not follow up with because I did not feel qualified to oversee from home (as was suggested). It was then that I tried to move back to the NHS to get treatment. Cahms did not accept the diagnosis because the child was not seen in person, at school. They strongly felt that she did not have ADHD but instead had ASD. I found it very stressful to realise that my private assessment did not meet my local NHS requirements. We have just had a private ASD assessment which saw my child in person twice. This gave a diagnosis of ASD, and did not suggest following up with an ADHD assessment. To give Psychiatry-uk the benefit of the doubt, it may be that my child has both ADHD and ASD. But the point is that to properly assess a child, a professional needs to observe them in their own setting - not over zoom. And any assessment should meet the requirements of the NHS. The reason I gave 3 starts about feeling safe, is because I did not feel that handing over the supervision of such serious medication was a safe thing to do .