Private Diagnosis Route.

Now I realise this topic has been posted before, but quite frankly I’m too lazy to find it.

So I’ve been waiting for a diagnosis for nearly a year now and the NHS, which lets face it is a shambles, first referred me to the local service. They told me it would be nearly 3 years to get seen. Therefore I told my GP there were private organisations that took NHS referrals, so I was taken off the NHS waiting list and referred to Healios. Expect 3 months later, after many emails, I discovered that the GP had completely balls’d up the referral  and I hadn’t been referred at all!

Anyway, long story short getting fed up of the constant lies and catalogue of errors, so thinking I’ll just refer myself and pay privately.

What are people’s experience and recommendations for private practices. Ideally I want to do video, not face to face. More options I have the better.

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  • Mine was about 12 years ago and things may be different now but it was very easy - google who is the best person in your area and then get your gp to refer you.    Simple as that.      And get your wallet out.... Smiley

    My company health insurance paid for mine so there was an intermediate step of getting approval from them.

    I got to see the very top man in the field.      My assessment was done in one, long session in the form of a casual chat - the guy obviously knew all of the standard questions by heart (I think he wrote them) so was interlacing them into our 'chat' and watching my reactions and my answers.    Being Aspie, I didn't spot what he was doing.

    I'm very, very Aspie - sort of like Sheldon Cooper meets Commander Data so if you know what you're looking for, I stand out like a sore thumb.

    The report has the phrase "clearly has Asperger's" in quite a few places.

    All this time later, I totally understand myself now and I find it really easy to spot undiagnosed Aspies.

    As far as I can work out, the current NHS system seems to be all about not bothering the consultants so you get bounced around a whole load of very junior people, filling in questionnaires after questionnaire, before waiting months for someone to bother to progress you to the next pointless hurdle.    Covid has given them a brilliant excuse to sit back and do nothing and blame everything but themselves.

  • Thanks Plastic, great personality assessment. Sheldon is the best! You’re spot on with the NHS thing. I just wish they wouldn’t treat me like I’m stupid. Tell me my IFR is being reviewed at a CCG meeting, then tell me a month later they’re in the process of filling out my IFR paperwork! Seriously people, give me some credit.

  • Individual Funding Request (a form used to divert NHS patient funding to an alternative provider)

    Clinical Commissioning Group (The local area group that decides how their NHS budget is allocated)

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