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Speaker 1: Look good news if you or someone in your life

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Speaker 1: has ADHD, or you think they may have ADHD but

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Speaker 1: haven't been able to get diagnosed. From February next year,

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Speaker 1: GPS and in some cases nurses will be able to

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Speaker 1: diagnose and treat adults and children with ADHD. Until now,

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Speaker 1: only psychiatrists could do this, but the wait time to

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Speaker 1: get to one of them could have been as long

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Speaker 1: as a year in some cases. Darrenbull is the chairperson

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Speaker 1: of ADHD New Zealand and with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey Darren, hi heyding, I'm very well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Are you confident that GPS and nurse practitioners

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Speaker 1: have the skill set to be able to diagnose and treat?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we are and I might note though that both

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Speaker 2: GPS and nurse practitioners have to be trained and working

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Speaker 2: within the area of practice, which means that the GP

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Speaker 2: is not interested, for example, in ADHD, they won't be

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Speaker 2: able to help.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that there's a danger of over diagnosis.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. First of all, the underdiagnosis

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand is significant, we're half that of Australia.

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Speaker 2: And second of all, you have the trained medical professionals

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Speaker 2: and they're working with guidelines. It should mean that we

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Speaker 2: have the correct level of diagnosis.

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Speaker 1: Do you worry because at the moment we already have

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Speaker 1: a bit of a crunch on ADHD medication if I mean,

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Speaker 1: it sounds terrible saying this, but if we start diagnosing

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Speaker 1: more and more people and handing out the medication, do

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Speaker 1: we not end up with more of a problem here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, there is that possibility for that, But there's

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Speaker 2: sort of two counter arguments of The first is the

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Speaker 2: medication shortage, so hopefully that's going to be resolved in

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Speaker 2: the next six months, noting or so far make have

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Speaker 2: been amazing in their approach to our community of this.

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Speaker 2: And the second thing is, you know, when it comes

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Speaker 2: to first of fear, there's not going to be a

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Speaker 2: whole stack of trained GPS in nurse practitioners available. They

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Speaker 2: have to go through the training, they have to work

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Speaker 2: with the Royal colleges to work that availability out and

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Speaker 2: capability and capacity is going to be key and it

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Speaker 2: might take one to two years to work. Brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thank you very much, Darren, appreciate your time. That's

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Speaker 1: Darren Ball, chairperson of ADHD New Zealand.

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