Pulse in Focus Podcast: Can GPs improve ADHD care?

In this month’s Pulse in Focus: The Podcast episode, we look at what the landmark Government-commissioned review into ADHD means for general practice.

Editor Sofia Lind is joined by Dr David Crocker, a psychiatrist specialising in adult ADHD. The pair discuss whether ADHD is actually overdiagnosed – as a Pulse survey recently suggested, whether all assessment services can be trusted, when and why GPs should do shared care prescribing, and how GPs can improve their care of patients with ADHD.

And deputy news editor Anna Colivicchi speaks to Dr Tom Dolphin, chair of council for the BMA, about the Government’s draft guidance on how physician associates (PAs) in primary care could be allowed to see limited groups of undifferentiated patients – under heavy supervision from GPs.

Dr Dolphin outlines the union’s concerns over these ‘dangerous‘ proposals for PAs working in GP practices, and whether the long-running issue of PAs holds any similarities to recent concerns about advanced practitioners.

Pulse in Focus: The Podcast for GPs is hosted on Buzzsprout but you can find it wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the full episcode here.

Last month’s podcast discussed the rise of unsolicited advice and guidance (A&G) to general practice, despite NHS England denying the existence of a 25% target for GP referrals to be ‘diverted’ back to GPs as A&G.