Child ADHD Assessment
What the assessment involves
Following your initial consultation, the ADHD assessment pathway includes:
Pre-assessment Questionnaires: Rating scales completed by parents and school to provide evidence of how your child presents across home and educational settings.
QbCheck: A computer-based assessment providing objective information about attention, activity and impulse control completed by your child. The result contributes to the wider clinical assessment but does not diagnose or exclude ADHD on its own.
A detailed clinical assessment
This explores your child’s development, current difficulties, strengths, functioning across different settings and the impact of their symptoms on everyday life.
Assessment of co-occurring conditions/psychiatric assessment
The assessment considers anxiety, depression, autism, learning difficulties, sleep problems and other conditions that may coexist with ADHD or produce similar difficulties.
Diagnostic decision and feedback
All available evidence is considered together before a diagnostic decision is made. Verbal feedback is normally provided at the end of the diagnostic appointment where the evidence is sufficiently complete. Occasionally, further information or multidisciplinary discussion may be required before the conclusion can be confirmed.
Assessment Fee
£1100
Includes
Pre-assessment Initial Consultation
QB Check
Assessment Session
Recommendations
Report
Complimentary session for ADHD medication initiation if recommended
Important to know
Information from school
Written report
After an ADHD diagnosis
ADHD diagnostic criteria require evidence that relevant difficulties are present in more than one setting. Information from school is therefore an important part of the assessment.
Parents will be asked to provide school information and teachers will receive questionnaires before the diagnostic appointment. For children who are educated at home, we will discuss whether suitable information can be obtained from a tutor, educational setting, activity leader or another professional who knows the child well.
If adequate evidence from outside the home is unavailable, it may not be possible to reach a reliable diagnostic conclusion.
The written report explains the evidence considered, diagnostic conclusion, clinical reasoning and practical recommendations for home and education.
If ADHD is not diagnosed, the report will still explain the clinical findings and identify any appropriate recommendations or next steps.
Where medication is clinically appropriate, we can provide initiation, titration, physical-health monitoring and ongoing review within the same consultant-led service.
A private ADHD diagnosis does not guarantee that a GP will accept NHS prescribing or a shared-care arrangement. Families for whom future NHS prescribing is important should discuss this with their GP before beginning a private assessment.