Hyperactivity: Mental Health Services

(asked on 28th August 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2020 to Question 68456, if he will publish the membership of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Implementation Working Group within the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 10th September 2020

At the request of the Department, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) worked with NHS England and NHS Improvement to convene a national working group on supporting the implementation of NICE recommendations on the diagnosis and management of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This is a multidisciplinary group, made up of service users, national policy leads, commissioners, providers, and professional organisations, and includes representatives from:

- NICE;

- The Department of Health and Social Care;

- NHS England and NHS Improvement;

- Public Health England;

- Health Education England;

- The Department for Education;

- NHS Digital;

- The Ministry of Justice;

- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust;

- AADD-UK;

- ADHD Foundation;

- The Maudsley Hospital (national service);

- The Royal College of Occupational Therapists;

- Oxford ADHD and Autism Centre;

- The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health;

- The Royal College of Psychiatrists;

- University College London;

- The Royal College of Nursing;

- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust;

- The University of Exeter;

- Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire Strategic Clinical Network;

- North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;

- Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; and

- Greater Manchester Health and Care Commissioning.

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