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Speaker 1: From early next year. GP is going to be able

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Speaker 1: to help you with the ADHD trouble until now as

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Speaker 1: you need a psych and given the round enough of them.

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Speaker 1: There's a backlog. So Doctor Luke Bredford is the Medical

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Speaker 1: Director of the Royal College of GPS and is with

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Speaker 1: us Looke morning to you well in Mike, good move.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we believe it is. Don't help people access diagnosis

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Speaker 2: and treatment, make it quicker and more affordable.

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Speaker 1: How realistic was the psych in the process anyway, or

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Speaker 1: was it more a box ticking exercise by somebody perceived

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Speaker 1: to be higher up the latter.

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Speaker 2: No. It got brought in the nineteen nineties because of

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Speaker 2: a fear that the stimulants were being diverted and abused

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Speaker 2: as a street drug, which has been shown not to

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Speaker 2: be the case. It is quite a complicated diagnosis. It

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Speaker 2: takes sort of upwards of an hour to get through

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Speaker 2: the whole process. So that's where it's sort of sat

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Speaker 2: with psychiatry.

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Speaker 1: Are the GPS able to do it and do it comfortably?

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Speaker 2: So we're going to It will be under sort of

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Speaker 2: a specialist interest type GP, so it'll be a particular appointment.

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Speaker 2: It will be a much longer appointment, and these gps

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Speaker 2: will lap to up skilled do some training courses, much

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Speaker 2: the same way as if you went to see a

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Speaker 2: GP to have a skin cancer removed, it'd been a

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Speaker 2: gpu'ed up skill to do that. Right.

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Speaker 1: Are we finally getting to this because there was movement

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Speaker 1: around the access to certain drugs, there's now this change coming.

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Speaker 1: Are we finally dealing with ADHD in a way we

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Speaker 1: probably should have been for quite a while.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think there's a lot more awareness of where

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Speaker 2: it is in society and probably the harm its cause,

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Speaker 2: and we see it through corrections massively and through MSD stats.

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Speaker 2: But it's been underdiagnosed and undermanaged, especially in some groups.

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Speaker 2: I think there probably is a bit of a danger,

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Speaker 2: but it's also become a bit saddy through the TikTok

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Speaker 2: type generation and we just have to make sure that

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Speaker 2: the assessment process is really rigorous for that good.

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Speaker 1: Stuff go well, look, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Look.

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Speaker 1: Bradford who's the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners

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Speaker 1: a note ironically, in referencing the business of we were

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Speaker 1: a bit worried that certain things would happen at the drugs.

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Speaker 1: We're a bit worried about Pseudoithandrin too we won't we

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Speaker 1: until well suddenly you can get it now and Summing

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Speaker 1: and Brown was in the house on it yesterday. David

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Speaker 1: Seymour was making jokes about it and if you have

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Speaker 1: no idea what I'm talking about, it was moderately funny.

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