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ADHD provision for adults 'lacking'Date: 13/07/2007 09:12:00
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among adults is not being managed effectively by NHS trusts, research suggests.
Psychiatrists have stated that the NHS is failing to provide sufficient care for the condition, which affects around four per cent of adults, a report by the BBC has found.
Health experts claim that the government should put ADHD and its related effects - inattentiveness, overactivity and impulsiveness at the top of their agenda.
Although ADHD is predominately associated with children, the condition can affect people into adulthood, causing problems in their everyday working and personal lives.
Anthony Hale, professor of psychiatry at the University of Kent, told the BBC that provision for adult ADHD patients in the UK is lacking.
"There are huge numbers of people across the country who are on waiting lists to see adult psychiatrists who don't have the expertise to deal with them," he said.
"There are only a handful of clinics and specialists at the moment across the country who are doing it.
"And the rest of them are getting random allocation of care to all the different existing bits of the service that aren't really suitable," he said.
According to figures from the Attention Deficit Disorder Information and Support Service, 80 per cent of children diagnosed with ADHD experience the symptoms into adolescence, while for 67 per cent of children the effects of the condition carry with them into adulthood.
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