Paying Privately for Adult Aspergers Assessment?

mic,

One can not simply judge the whole of the NHS, or the whole of private practice, on one, or even several, isolated case(s).

I was diagnosed through the NHS. And whilst I had to jump through some hoops to get there, once I had, the diagnostic process was excellent. I was seen by a specialist psychologist who was trained in the diagnosis of Asperger's in Adults, and she confirmed, and re-affirmed, her diagnosis with Professor Baron Cohen himself.

One of the biggest failings of the NHS is simply that the delivery of service is not consistent across all regional authorities, largely, I believe, because of the way the local primary care trusts have been given the power to determine what level of services they provide.

However, the same failings can be said to exist within the private health sector, and are probably more likely to exist there because each individual practitioner is entirely independent and decides for themselves the level of service they will provide.

mic,

One can not simply judge the whole of the NHS, or the whole of private practice, on one, or even several, isolated case(s).

I was diagnosed through the NHS. And whilst I had to jump through some hoops to get there, once I had, the diagnostic process was excellent. I was seen by a specialist psychologist who was trained in the diagnosis of Asperger's in Adults, and she confirmed, and re-affirmed, her diagnosis with Professor Baron Cohen himself.

One of the biggest failings of the NHS is simply that the delivery of service is not consistent across all regional authorities, largely, I believe, because of the way the local primary care trusts have been given the power to determine what level of services they provide.

However, the same failings can be said to exist within the private health sector, and are probably more likely to exist there because each individual practitioner is entirely independent and decides for themselves the level of service they will provide.