Improving ADHD services for children and young people in Greater Manchester.
NHS Greater Manchester wants to improve children’s Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) services and would like to hear from you. We want to hear from people living with ADHD, their family members or carers, and also want to hear from anyone working with people who have ADHD in Greater Manchester.
This project is part of a bigger piece of work called our ‘Neurodiversity Programme’ to improve how we care for children with conditions like ADHD and autism.
Read more about the Children’s ADHD review below:
What is ADHD?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common condition in children and young people that makes it hard for them to focus, sit still, and control their actions or behaviour.
ADHD is part of a group of neurodevelopmental conditions – things that affect how our brain works. Other neurodevelopmental conditions include autism and speech and language conditions. Neurodevelopmental conditions are not mental health conditions.
Whilst we are working to improve all neurodevelopmental services, this work is focusing on ADHD. Based on national figures, we estimate that there are nearly 30,000 children and young people with this condition in Greater Manchester.
Get involved
We have worked closely with professionals from health, schools and social care, as well as families, children and young people to understand the issues with services and how to improve them.
Now we want to hear from more families, parents, carers, children and young people and staff to understand what you think about our plans.
There are several ways in which you can have your say, all options will allow you to share your thoughts and experiences, feel free to use one or more of the options:
Complete the survey:
Join a lived experience group:
There will be two groups. One for parents, carers and professionals and another for children themselves.
Please be aware that being part of a group will involve attending lived experience meetings. The engagement of the groups is expected to last around 10-12 weeks.
Please contact gmhscp.engagement@nhs.net for more information and to register your interest.
Attend one of our focus groups
The dates will be published here soon.
Contact us
You can email us and let us know what you think at gmhscp.engagement@nhs.net
Want to talk with us instead? Call 07786 673762 to speak to someone from our engagement team, or send via WhatsApp.
