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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: I was estimated that one in twenty around one million

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Speaker 2: people across Australia have ADHD, but with excessive costs when

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Speaker 2: it comes to getting disdiagnosed, that number is likely far greater. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's about to get easier with the Men's government announcing

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Speaker 2: reforms which will allow gps to treat ADHD to reduce

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Speaker 2: weight times and costs.

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Speaker 1: For more.

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Speaker 2: Let's chat to the news Howls Health Minister Ryan Park Hello, minister,

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Speaker 2: how are you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Good? Thanks, good morning to you both.

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Speaker 2: Now until now to get diagnosed, have you had to

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Speaker 2: make an appointment with a psychiatrist or a neurologist.

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Speaker 1: How has it been working so far?

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Speaker 3: It's a challenge. We know that we've got workforce shortages

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Speaker 3: across our healthcare system and for some people that can

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Speaker 3: end up waiting twelve months to two years and that's

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Speaker 3: simply not something we want to see. So we've decided

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Speaker 3: to make a change and allow gps who undergo specific

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Speaker 3: and additional training to be able to be involved in

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Speaker 3: that prescribing those drugs needed for ADHD going forward, and

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Speaker 3: for a small amount, the believe that they'll also be

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Speaker 3: allowed to diagnose in that process.

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Speaker 2: I saw something on the ABC last year on a

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Speaker 2: radio documentary called Background Briefing. Well, they looked at telehealth

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Speaker 2: and how easy it was for a lot of people

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Speaker 2: to be diagnosed or misdiagnosed through telehealth, and there were

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Speaker 2: terrible stories of people being given medication without proper diagnosis

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Speaker 2: and that conflicted the other medications they were taking with

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Speaker 2: terrible results. Will this at least be face to face

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Speaker 2: or people be able to be properly consulted by a doctor.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, without a doubt in those doctors and gps, despite

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Speaker 3: the fact that they already undergo specific training, there will

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Speaker 3: be additional training for them to be involved in this program.

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Speaker 3: We estimate around one thousand extra gps will undertake this

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Speaker 3: type of training, and then a small number of those

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Speaker 3: will be involved in the diagnosis, not the four thousand,

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Speaker 3: but probably around about one hundred. So there'll be different

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Speaker 3: levels of training for which GPS can elect to go into.

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Speaker 3: But this is all about making sure that people with

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Speaker 3: an ADHD diagnosis can get access to that important medication

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Speaker 3: as effectively as possible, while still making sure that it

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Speaker 3: is safe and we're delivering the best possible clinical care

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Speaker 3: to the patient because you.

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Speaker 1: Don't want to being rauded like the ndis.

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Speaker 3: No, without a doubt, we don't want to see that.

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Speaker 3: But I've got an enormous amount of trust in our gps.

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Speaker 3: They're a profession that I think people have a great

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Speaker 3: deal of trust in. I think we've got some challenges

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Speaker 3: across our healthcare system, however, in trying to allow people

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Speaker 3: to access the prescriptions they need or the individuals they need.

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Speaker 3: So we have to try and allow people within the

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Speaker 3: system to try and work to our full scope of practice.

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Speaker 3: We're seeing that we're doing that within our pharmacist at

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Speaker 3: the moment, and this is an extension of that, using

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Speaker 3: our highly trained GPS to undertake additional training to provide

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Speaker 3: this type of care.

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Speaker 2: It'll be a lot cheaper, a lot easier to see

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Speaker 2: a GP than a psychiatry rist.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, we know that psychiatrists

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Speaker 3: are in hot demand at the moment. We know many

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Speaker 3: many health professionals are, and we know the work that

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Speaker 3: they do is incredibly valued but valuable. But we also

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Speaker 3: know that it's important for people to get access to

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Speaker 3: this type of support as quickly and as efficiently as

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Speaker 3: they possibly can. And we believe that GPS are ready

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Speaker 3: to take that next step and increase their scope of practice.

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Speaker 1: There you go, initiative, make a big different stuff happening.

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Speaker 1: I was recently diagnosed with it.

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Speaker 2: Apparently you work with well, I could diagnose you in

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Speaker 2: a second, and I chose.

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Speaker 1: They said, well we could do something about that. Who

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Speaker 1: diagnosed as an adult? Were you? Yeah, this is a

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Speaker 1: few years ago, and I just said, look, I've learned

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Speaker 1: to deal with it. Yeah, and mentally yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: you scratch the surface. Team here. Well, someone said to

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Speaker 1: me you should take riddle and see what it does

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 3: You don't do that. Make sure you make sure you're

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Speaker 3: going through the right ways.

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Speaker 2: Me, you're not reading ending I mind sweet people's medicine cabinets.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not. I don't do that.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking some of Amanda's estrogen medicine. He's very perky, right,

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Speaker 1: It's always great to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: I think this is a great initiative to make a

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Speaker 2: big difference for families.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, always good to chat to you. Thanks a

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Speaker 3: lot for having me, Ryan park Out, New South Wales

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Speaker 3: Health Minister. There