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No idea what to do with my GP

NInagw3

It’s been a long and tedious battle with my GP. And it’s  gotten to the stage now where I have no idea what’s going on but the doctors aren’t helping at all! 

It took a few appointments for anyone to take me seriously, and I ended up spending hours putting together questionnaires and essays to help get the referral, only the doctors lost this paperwork and now they are demanding I hand more in but I’m a little uncomfortable entrusting that information again. Isn’t there a way I could hand the paperwork into the place myself? Or just keep it with my until my referral? My doctors are not  very good with sensitive information... 

Also, while they rang me to inform me that the paperwork had been lost, they proceeded to tell me that every referral they’ve ever sent before to try and get an autism diagnosis has failed... which doesn’t give me much hope. Should I go privately? Is there another service I can use? The doctors are saying they need this paperwork so they can get funding, but I thought you only needed funding if there wasn’t a service in the are? I live in bradford and there is a service called BANDS although Ive heard they have a 3 year waiting list, but there is also LADS in Leeds that take referrals from Bradford so why do I have to get funding? 

Im really confused and I’m really stressing out. All I want to do is get diagnosed so I can get help and try to go back to university! I’m starting to loose hope that I will ever find a way to cope :(  

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  • Former Member
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    I'd contact LADS and BANDS to see what they suggest. My ref to my local assessment centre didn't go through my GP.

    If you want to go back to uni have you contacted your prefered institutions to see what support they provide? At the university where I work we will pay for our students to have a private autism assessment, which can normally take place within a few weeks once you've enrolled. If you apply for DSA, we make that money back very quickly by charging the gov for your needs assessment, then mentoring so it's a win-win situation. Not all uni's provide this support though.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    I'd contact LADS and BANDS to see what they suggest. My ref to my local assessment centre didn't go through my GP.

    If you want to go back to uni have you contacted your prefered institutions to see what support they provide? At the university where I work we will pay for our students to have a private autism assessment, which can normally take place within a few weeks once you've enrolled. If you apply for DSA, we make that money back very quickly by charging the gov for your needs assessment, then mentoring so it's a win-win situation. Not all uni's provide this support though.

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  • in reply to Former Member

    Thanks for your help, the problem is that I’ve already been to uni and failed, so I no longer have funding. I have to find my first year myself which means saving, and I can’t handle a full time job nor can I last longer than 7 months in a part time job so I would need the help to be able to get to uni to begin with :(