Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Health Education
(asked on 26th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase awareness of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among (a) the public and (b) medical practitioners.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Department is not currently taking specific steps to increase awareness of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among the public and medical practitioners.
General practitioners are responsible for ensuring their own clinical knowledge remains up-to-date and for identifying learning needs as part of their continuing professional development. The MindEd e-learning platform for medical professionals has several modules regarding ADHD.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence have published the guideline ‘Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management’ for healthcare professionals, commissioners and providers and people with ADHD, their families and carers. Integrated care boards and National Health Service trusts should have due regard to this guidance in exercising their functions.