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Refused Right To Choose

Old_Guy

I was referred for assessment by my GP surgery to the Devon NHS service for adults with ADHD and ASD. I discovered that they have a waiting time of 6½ years! I am 68 now. Then I heard about Right To Choose and sole to my GP who was fully in support. We found a recognised service provider the GP had used before and I completed the paperwork. I have a massage from the GP stating the referral had been passed on. 

Imagine my distress and anger to find out today, after waiting the required 6 weeks before chasing the referral, that someone in something called the Referral Management Team for Right To Choose has decided I would be better off staying on the list I'm already on - 6½ years instead of 3 months. 

My GP surgery is just as puzzled and is trying to find out more, but, hey, no one is responding to their emails and phone calls - surprise surprise.

Has anyone come across this before? Can anyone offer any advice on how to overcome this beaurocratic nonsense? 

Thank you from a newbie 

Parents

  • An update on my post from a couple of months ago. 

    Neither I or my GP could find out why I'd been refused the Right To Choose assessment with Psychiatry UK - I may well write to them for more information. 

    In the meantime, my GP (after some delay) has now referred my to Autsm 360 and I'm waiting to hear if they will give me an assessment. 

  • in reply to Old_Guy

    That sounds more hopeful now. I’m not in a Right to Choose area, but nowadays, for autism services and for anything else NHS related, I think we need to keep pushing to find out where we are on the waiting lists. I have disappeared from lists or been put back at the bottom a couple of times.

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  • in reply to Old_Guy

    That sounds more hopeful now. I’m not in a Right to Choose area, but nowadays, for autism services and for anything else NHS related, I think we need to keep pushing to find out where we are on the waiting lists. I have disappeared from lists or been put back at the bottom a couple of times.

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