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Adult referral

RidleyRumpus

Hi,

I had not considered myself to be on the spectrum but comments from my ex wife and several colleagues in the teaching profession that they thought I maybe got me thinking.

I have many of the same characteristics of those on the spectrum and when I have taken the online tests as honestly as possible the indication is always that I am on the spectrum.

The problem is that I think AS may account for why I seem to have so many interpersonal problems at work, I am a physics teacher). I am often accused of being rude when I just cannot see it, I really do not want to be.

This is made worse that I have great deal of difficulty with names and faces, it took me four years to be able to differentiate all the colleagues in my department and there are only ten. With pupils it is plain embarrassing to be talking to a pupil in the corridor not know their name and be told I have taught them for X years...

As a consequence it is not surprising to me that I have more than my fair share of complaints from students and parents. Unfortunately due to at least partle due to these problems my school is now moving to have me sacked.

So today I went to my GP and asked to be referred for a test only to be told that this PCG does not fund/provide referrals for adults. I have checked for a private referral and this would cost me £1000 which I just do not have.

I presume that they are not allowed to do this?

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  • Longman said:

    Legally they must refer you. The trouble
    is the Government (pre-election) has been constricting the funds of Clinical
    Commissioning Groups (CCGs) which manage resources in NHS localities. Grants
    have been revoked then the CCGs penalised for going into overspend, all part
    of the NHS wrecking strategy. So CCGs have been forced to make stringent cuts
    and some are still nominally in the red.  This means they could well
    have decided to restrict autism diagnoses for adults, even though they
    officially cannot do this. However the decision will be in the public domain
    - the public have to have consulted. You have a legal right to view
    those consultations. You may be able to go through the practice Patient
    Participation Group if they have one that works properly. Otherwise you need
    to go to your local CCG direct and ask why NHS autism diagnoses are being
    witheld. My guess is the GP is simply in error, but the whole business of cut
    backs is confusing. NAS should know about this [...].

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  • Longman said:

    Legally they must refer you. The trouble
    is the Government (pre-election) has been constricting the funds of Clinical
    Commissioning Groups (CCGs) which manage resources in NHS localities. Grants
    have been revoked then the CCGs penalised for going into overspend, all part
    of the NHS wrecking strategy. So CCGs have been forced to make stringent cuts
    and some are still nominally in the red.  This means they could well
    have decided to restrict autism diagnoses for adults, even though they
    officially cannot do this. However the decision will be in the public domain
    - the public have to have consulted. You have a legal right to view
    those consultations. You may be able to go through the practice Patient
    Participation Group if they have one that works properly. Otherwise you need
    to go to your local CCG direct and ask why NHS autism diagnoses are being
    witheld. My guess is the GP is simply in error, but the whole business of cut
    backs is confusing. NAS should know about this [...].

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