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Complications with my autism referral

ACNH-2001

       Hello! I haven’t been on here since roughly November and nothing much has changed. I am currently awaiting to hear when I will be registered with my new doctors, so I can get referred properly! However, I have been told that autism referrals/autism related issues (according to my old GP) have been changed by the NHS to an educational issue. I got told to get my uni involved and I have been refused guidance/a referral via my uni, due to there being no evidence that this was said. I can’t find any evidence of this online, so I thought here was a good place to ask!

       I’ve also got a local support team involved too and I emailed today asking if someone could look into it, so hopefully I can find answers. It’s rather frustrating and I keep going around and around in (metaphorical) circles. I just want clear answers as to whether I am autistic or not!

      On top of this, I am so overwhelmed and stressed with uni work and I am awaiting for the doctors to also be sorted so I can get counselling, as I think it would be beneficial, considering my circumstances. There’s just so so much going on and I feel like there’s hardly any support in place for me Disappointed

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  • Does your uni not have a counselling service? I had counselling at my uni some years ago and I didnt need to go via my gp. NHS counselling waiting lists are high and in my experience they try to get you to do things like CBT instead (which I hate personally). 

    I also just self-referred to the autism service in my area. Have you found them directly online to see if this is possible where you are? 

  • in reply to M

    I have to wait for my doctors to be swapped over so I can self refer through the uni as they don’t provide official counselling only support through the mental health team

    how would I look into that? I didn’t even know self-referring for autism was a thing, but it would make things so much easier if it is!

  • in reply to ACNH-2001

    Are you in england because typically they require you to go through you General practitioner to be referred to mental health or autism services. If you are going through the free NHS route than unfortunately typically cannot self refer and requires a GP. If you can prove that your General Practitioner is being extremely unhelpful than you can contact the mental health services or adult autism services and explain issues you have been experiences with you GP or doctors surgery and they can override the need for a GP referral but you need evidence such as paper trail or audio recording of session with you GP. 

    Ideally you need to find out the date when your doctor made the initial referral, If your doctor did not make a referral you need a written explanation on why they believed they didn't need to look into or make the referral. Often they will charge over £30 of a doctor to write a letter however many doctors surgery will waver this cost if it prevents you from reporting them.Often in this situation the GP will often apologize and to make the effort and look into it because it gross negligence and the doctor is often responsible for mis interpreting or failing to look into age appropriate treatment.

    if your doctors surgery still being very hostile you can make a written complaint to the doctors surgery and pursue it with your local health ombudsman.         

  • in reply to Blue

    thank you so much :) i will keep all of these in mind!

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