Right to Choose
What is Right to Choose?
Did you know that in many cases you have the legal right to choose where you have your NHS treatment?
If a GP needs to refer you for a physical or mental health condition, in most cases you have the legal right to choose the hospital or service you'd like to go to.
This will include many private hospitals if they provide services to the NHS and it does not cost the NHS any more than a referral to a standard NHS hospital.
You have the legal right to ask for your appointment to be moved to a different provider if you're likely to wait longer than the maximum waiting time specified for your treatment.
The hospital or integrated care board (ICB) will have to investigate and offer you a range of suitable alternative hospitals or clinics that would be able to see you sooner.
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ADHD Referrals
Please see our Practice Policy below:
Medication for the treatment of ADHD must be initiated and stabilised by a UK registered Consultant Psychiatrist.
Ongoing prescribing within primary care should only be undertaken as part of share care agreement once the patient has been stabilized. Our processing time for shared care agreements is 28 days.
Please note that we reserve the right to reject any shared care agreement if we feel the patient has not been initiated on medication by a consultant psychiatrist, or where we feel the shared care agreement being proposed is not equivalent to an NHS standard shared care agreement.