Question follow-through · 24471
ADHD: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) people and (b) university students with ADHD do not experience gaps in their medical treatment when moving to different NHS trust areas.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) people and (b) university students with ADHD do not experience gaps in their medical treatment when moving to different NHS trust areas.
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jan 2025
Answer published
Prescribers should follow the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidelines, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management, when prescribing medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). These guidel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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