Post by keviny on Mar 25, 2016 10:26:44 GMT
Hello
Background
I was diagnosed ADD in the US in 2000 and getting Ritalin and Adderall was a breeze.(I was 30 then).
2016 in UK, went to GP at Broken Cross in Macclesfield. GP point-blank refused to issue meds (understandable, initially) and initially refused to put me on an NHS waiting list, she also misinformed me that the list was 2 years long.
So researched it and decided to go private. Full diagnoses for ADD. The consultant psychiatrist wrote to my doctor asking her:
1) to arrange a battery of tests (e.g. Liver function, ECG, Blood pressure + 4 more)
2) would she take over the treatment.
Via a nurse the message given back to me is blanket refusal to (1) and (2) and to go private.
I raised a complaint to the practice manager. She told me she has no information as to why I have been refused treatment, she only suggested the NHS has no money and it is not policy for the NHS to take over private treatment (which was a route I was forced to go down because the doctor refused to put me on a waiting list).
Initial assertion
Further research leads me to believe there is lack of clarity on the prescription of Methylphenidate Hydrochloride. From the NHS website it makes it clear:
1) It is not available under license for adults who were not diagnosed/using it as a child
2) It can be prescribed to adults under doctors supervision.
For clarity, it doesn't seem to be unlawful for a doctor to provide the meds. It if was, the consultant psychiatrist would not have put it in writing to my doctor his intent to prescribe me Methylphenidate Hydrochloride or Concerta XL.
Questions
1) Research leads me to believe doctor has to give a reason for refusal. This has not happened to me. Is my understanding correct? (I have looked at the NHS website and it is confusing)
2) Do others feel psychiatrists need to be clearer to doctors when they send the results requesting they give their patients treatment for this type of med? My impression is the doctor is ill-informed. Is there any information that should be provided to doctors by psychiatrists. Based on my experience, the doctor I had seems very uncommunicative and uncooperative. My psychiatrist has never had a situation like this before where the doctor has also refused to arrange the medical.
Many thanks
Kevin
Background
I was diagnosed ADD in the US in 2000 and getting Ritalin and Adderall was a breeze.(I was 30 then).
2016 in UK, went to GP at Broken Cross in Macclesfield. GP point-blank refused to issue meds (understandable, initially) and initially refused to put me on an NHS waiting list, she also misinformed me that the list was 2 years long.
So researched it and decided to go private. Full diagnoses for ADD. The consultant psychiatrist wrote to my doctor asking her:
1) to arrange a battery of tests (e.g. Liver function, ECG, Blood pressure + 4 more)
2) would she take over the treatment.
Via a nurse the message given back to me is blanket refusal to (1) and (2) and to go private.
I raised a complaint to the practice manager. She told me she has no information as to why I have been refused treatment, she only suggested the NHS has no money and it is not policy for the NHS to take over private treatment (which was a route I was forced to go down because the doctor refused to put me on a waiting list).
Initial assertion
Further research leads me to believe there is lack of clarity on the prescription of Methylphenidate Hydrochloride. From the NHS website it makes it clear:
1) It is not available under license for adults who were not diagnosed/using it as a child
2) It can be prescribed to adults under doctors supervision.
For clarity, it doesn't seem to be unlawful for a doctor to provide the meds. It if was, the consultant psychiatrist would not have put it in writing to my doctor his intent to prescribe me Methylphenidate Hydrochloride or Concerta XL.
Questions
1) Research leads me to believe doctor has to give a reason for refusal. This has not happened to me. Is my understanding correct? (I have looked at the NHS website and it is confusing)
2) Do others feel psychiatrists need to be clearer to doctors when they send the results requesting they give their patients treatment for this type of med? My impression is the doctor is ill-informed. Is there any information that should be provided to doctors by psychiatrists. Based on my experience, the doctor I had seems very uncommunicative and uncooperative. My psychiatrist has never had a situation like this before where the doctor has also refused to arrange the medical.
Many thanks
Kevin