01Assessment routes
NHS, Right to Choose or private?
A personal guide to the main routes, preparing well, the changing provider landscape, regulation and NHS guide prices.
- By
- Peter Corkhill · Content Editor
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- 6 minutes
- Reviewed
- September 2026
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01
ADULT SCREENER
Adult ADHD screener
Six established questions that may help you decide whether further exploration is worth considering. It cannot diagnose ADHD.
Open the screener → 02PRIVATE REFLECTION
ADHD reflection: interactive record
Collect ordinary-life examples across time and settings before a GP conversation or assessment.
Open the interactive record → 03COMPARISON
ADHD assessment comparison: interactive checklist
Compare routes, clinicians, reports, first-year costs, medication arrangements and Shared Care.
Open the checklist → 04PREPARATION
ADHD assessment preparation: interactive checklist
Organise practical details, what to have ready, questions to ask and what you are told afterwards.
Open the checklist → 05NHS DATA · EXPLAINED
What the NHS ADHD figures count
Understand the experimental national data, its limits and why referrals are not the same as people waiting.
Read the explanation →LONG-FORM GUIDES
The fuller explanation
Read online, print or save as a clean, ink-efficient PDF.
02Recognising patterns
Could This Be ADHD?
A calm guide to attention, restlessness, emotional regulation, developmental history, everyday impact and other explanations.
- By
- Neill Hughes · Clinical Editor
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- 8 minutes
- Reviewed
- September 2026
03Intelligence and IQ
ADHD and intelligence
Why ability, IQ, executive functioning and real-world performance are related but not interchangeable.
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- ADHD Junction Editorial
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- About 14 minutes
- Reviewed
- September 2026
04Benefits and support
ADHD benefits and financial support
What a diagnosis can—and cannot—unlock for adults, children, carers, students and people in work.
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- About 8 minutes
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- September 2026
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