Shared care agreements need to be in place for a GP to prescribe medication and require both the specialist and the GP to sign. Patients with a shared care agreement in place from a different area of the UK will need a new shared care agreement with the local ADHD clinic. If patients are seen as NHS patients by a private provider, there needs to be a shared care agreement in place before the GP can take over prescribing.
Patients who are from outside the UK will need to obtain their medication from their own specialist. If they require NHS prescriptions then this will require a referral to an NHS ADHD clinic and a shared care agreement to be in place before the GP can prescribe.
The shared care agreement will require you to continue to be reviewed, at intervals, by your ADHD clinic. Any adjustments or changes to your ADHD medications will be made by your ADHD clinic, and not by your GP. If you do not continue to have reviews by your ADHD clinic then the shared care agreement will no longer be valid and we will not be able to continue to prescribe ADHD medication for you.
We are only able to take on shared care prescribing for ADHD medication with the following in place:
- ADHD diagnosis made by specialist
- Medication started and stabilised by ADHD specialist
- Shared Care Agreement from your ADHD specialist which details the dose and name of medication you are taking
- Ongoing reviews with your ADHD specialist
- Your pulse, blood pressure, and weight measurements - taken in the past month.
If you have already been diagnosed with ADHD and are on medication, and are moving to our GP practice, it is your responsibility to inform your specialist clinic that they need to send a new shared care agreement to our practice. Without this we will not be able to prescribe your ADHD medication.