Adult assessment waits run to years in parts of England. A patient choice rule can open a different door, on the NHS, with a provider you help pick. Here is the honest version: what it is, who it covers, and what it cannot promise.
By Oliver Mackman, Editor · Checked against NHS and NICE sources
Read Right to Choose, explained →What changes, what does not, and the practical next steps that actually help.
Why supply has been disrupted in the UK and what your options are right now.
How the two overlap, how clinicians tell them apart, and why it matters.
What the data says about adult ADHD assessment waiting times across the UK.
Reasonable adjustments, disclosure, and the strategies that hold up under pressure.
An evidence-aware look at the tools, routines and supports people rely on.
Adult ADHD by the numbers
Every figure is drawn from a named primary source and linked to the original record.
of adults are estimated to have ADHD, the figure cited in NICE guidance.
Source: NICE guideline NG87
adults with ADHD in the UK are thought to remain undiagnosed.
Source: Royal College of Psychiatrists
is how long an adult assessment wait can run in parts of England.
Source: House of Commons Library