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Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and NHS England Associate National Clinical Director for Children and Young People
Since March 2020, Academic Health Science Networks have supported the rollout of an evidence-based Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) programme called Focus ADHD.
Working closely with mental health trusts and community paediatric services, the programme seeks to improve the ADHD assessment offer for children and young people. In the first year of the national programme, nearly 10,000 patients have benefitted across 46 hospital trusts in 2020/21.
ADHD is a treatable disorder and affects approximately 3-5% of children and young people (ONS CYP prevalence survey 2017). If undiagnosed and/or untreated ADHD can have a significant impact on personal development.