Hyperactivity: Mental Health Services
(asked on 1st July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of patients with ADHD that access NHS Mental Health services.
NHS Digital holds information on people in contact with secondary care mental health services who have a recorded diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or hyperactivity. However, as these statistics do not include people diagnosed with these conditions who are only in contact with primary care services, such as their general practitioner, these are an undercount of the total number of people with these diagnoses.
Treatment and service use, by Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) score.
All adults | 2014 | ||
| ASRS scorea | ||
Treatment and services | 0-3 | 4 or more | All 6 |
- | % | % | % |
Current treatment for a mental or emotional problem | |||
No treatment | 89.2 | 65.7 | 78.5 |
Medication only | 8.6 | 24.3 | 19.2 |
Counselling or therapy only | 1.4 | 2.8 | - |
Medication and counselling | 0.9 | 7.2 | 2.4 |
Service use | |||
Any current counselling or therapy | 2.2 | 10.1 | 2.4 |
Any health care service use for a mental or emotional problem | 10.0 | 37.4 | 40.0 |
Any community care service in past year | 5.9 | 19.6 | 19.7 |
Any day care service in past year | 3.8 | 9.3 | 10.9 |
Bases | 6,829 | 708 | 44 |
Notes:
The ASRS (Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale) is described in Section 8.2. A score of 4 or more is considered a positive screen for ADHD. The ‘4 or more’ group include those with a score of 6 on the ASRS.
Source: APMS 2014, NHS Digital