Firdale Medical Centre took a decision to suspend acceptance of shared care agreements for adults and children with ADHD currently under care of private providers. We are also suspending acceptance of new shared care agreements for children under NHS providers.
Rationale:
Shared care agreements should guarantee continuation of care and clinical oversite by consultant including regular reviews, testing and investigations as well as access to advise should GP require it to continue prescribing medication safely.
Our experience is that those agreements are not adhered to and as such we cannot continue engaging with them.
Please note there is no contractual requirement for a GP to enter shared care with private provider. Practices can decline on capacity or clinical grounds.
For more information, please read following article:
General practice responsibility in responding to private healthcare (bma.org.uk)