An ADHD assessment,
and the treatment
that follows it

At The Wellness a full adult ADHD assessment is £1,250 by video and an assessment for an under-eighteen is £1,450, each including the written report. Both begin with an initial hour with a consultant at £650, which comes off the price of a full assessment booked within three months. Across the UK assessments run from about £400 to £1,500. Ask any provider what happens after the diagnosis before you compare prices — titration and prescriptions usually cost more than the assessment did.

Often, but no one can promise it. Shared care is voluntary and your GP is not obliged to enter into it, and some practices and some areas decline all new agreements regardless of the assessment. What we can do is write the letter to your own integrated care board’s guidance, which is what most refusals turn on. If your GP declines, we continue prescribing rather than leaving you to find someone who will.

In England, when your GP refers you for a physical or mental health condition, in most cases you have the legal right to choose the hospital or service you go to, according to the NHS page Your choices in the NHS. Ask your GP whether that covers an ADHD assessment where you live. A private assessment is for people who would rather choose when they are seen and pay for it, and either way, ask your GP early how they handle shared care for any medication.

They have to consider it. The SEND Code of Practice is clear that a local authority cannot reject a professional report solely because it was obtained privately. What they can question is the quality, so reports for under-eighteens are written to be read by a school and a local authority as well as by a doctor, with the history, the impairment across settings and the reasoning set out rather than a conclusion on its own.

No, and the national guidance says so explicitly — a diagnosis must not rest on a rating scale alone. The assessment here uses a structured diagnostic interview against DSM-5 criteria, a corroborating account of childhood symptoms, and evidence of impairment in more than one setting. The questionnaires you complete beforehand inform that interview; they do not replace it.

No. You can book the initial assessment directly. Bring any previous reports or letters if you have them, because they carry history the consultant would otherwise have to reconstruct.

Yes. The transfer of care appointment is £395 and exists for this. Your existing report and prescription are reviewed, the physical health checks are brought up to date, and prescribing continues without a gap. Bring the original diagnostic report if you still have it.

A consultant psychiatrist on the GMC Specialist Register, and for under-eighteens a consultant psychiatrist or paediatrician. You can check any doctor's registration yourself on the GMC's medical register.

NICE guideline NG87. It says a diagnosis should be made only by a specialist psychiatrist, paediatrician or other appropriately qualified professional with training in ADHD, on the basis of a full clinical and psychosocial assessment, a full developmental and psychiatric history, and observer reports, and never on a rating scale alone. The interview here is DIVA-5, against DSM-5 criteria.

Yes. The London Wellness Clinic Ltd is registered with the Care Quality Commission as provider 1-28072230942, for treatment of disease, disorder or injury and for diagnostic and screening procedures. The register is public, so you can check the entry yourself at cqc.org.uk.