Confident ADHD Prescribing
Titration, monitoring and complex cases. A practical framework for the prescribing decisions that don't have a single right answer in the guideline.
Headlines warn of an overdiagnosis epidemic while NHS waiting lists hit record highs. Rather than asking you to pick a side, this course works through the data first.
Underdiagnosis, long waits, and the cost of years without the right explanation or treatment.
Variable assessment quality, and diagnoses made without enough structure or evidence.
Set documented diagnosis rates against expected prevalence, and explain why underdiagnosis is the larger problem in UK adult care.
Identify who is most likely to be missed, and what the wait for assessment costs them.
Engage honestly with legitimate overdiagnosis concerns, and tell “assessment quality varies” apart from “ADHD is overdiagnosed as a condition”.
Use a structured-assessment approach that holds both risks at once, illustrated through two worked clinical cases.
Leave with a checklist you can carry into your next ADHD assessment.
Prescribers involved in ADHD assessment or ongoing prescribing: GPs, psychiatrists, specialist nurses, pharmacists and other prescribing clinicians working to UK guidance.
This course carries a certificate of completion. It is not currently accredited by a third-party CPD body.
This course draws on current UK prevalence, waiting-list and outcome data, including some figures reported through university press coverage rather than the primary peer-reviewed paper. Study-sourced figures are marked and dated in the course because the evidence base is still evolving. Mortality-risk estimates are presented with caveats about confounding, and individual case examples are treated as illustrative, not representative. Always weigh figures against the current primary literature and NICE guidance.
Titration, monitoring and complex cases. A practical framework for the prescribing decisions that don't have a single right answer in the guideline.
The most persistent misconceptions about adult and late-diagnosed ADHD, taken apart properly: why each feels reasonable, where it stops being reasonable, and what the evidence shows.