Question follow-through · 32451

ADHD: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to ensure that individuals diagnosed with ADHD by private specialists can access NHS treatment.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 21 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 25 Feb 2025
Answer: 3 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Health and care

Cancer: Warwickshire · 24 Feb 2025
Cancer: Children and Young People · 24 Feb 2025
ADHD: Patient Choice Schemes · 25 Feb 2025
Autism: Women · 7 Mar 2025
Arthritis: Women · 7 Mar 2025

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to ensure that individuals diagnosed with ADHD by private specialists can access NHS treatment.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
General practitioners (GPs) are independent contractors that provide services within the National Health Service. The General Medical Council (GMC) has published the guidance, Good practice in proposing, prescribing, providing and managing medicines and d...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer: Warwickshire

24 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce delays in accessing cancer treatment in South Warwickshire.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer: Children and Young People

24 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce a Cancer Care Plan for (a) children and (b) young people.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

ADHD: Patient Choice Schemes

25 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that ADHD patients' Right to Choose is protected.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Autism: Women

7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review autism assessment questionnaire to be inclusive of female autism.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Arthritis: Women

7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support women living with arthritis.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

General Practitioners: Finance

12 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the new 2025-26 GP contract will lead to an increase in the proportion of the NHS budget allocated to general practice once the increase in employer National Insurance contributions has bee

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services: Stratford-on-Avon

18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to NHS dental services in Stratford-on-Avon.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services: Finance

18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of flexibility in the local application of dental budgets.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services

18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the national dentistry model to align it with NHS general medical services to include patient registration with NHS dentists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services: Finance

18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of funding NHS dental activity nationally.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Brain: Tumours

19 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the National Cancer Plan includes a strategy for (a) research and (b) improved treatment for brain tumours in children.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Negligence

3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of fixed recoverable costs on (a) birth injury cases, (b) mental health-related negligence claims and (c) claims involving elde