ICB pauses ADHD referrals to service for many adults as expansion is ‘unaffordable’

A mental health trust has stopped accepting ADHD referrals for many adults, after integrated care board chiefs warned it was “unaffordable” to expand the service due to financial pressures, HSJ understands.

Adults referred in Hertfordshire will now only be taken on by Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust’s ADHD service if their case is considered complex, despite soaring demand. 

The move comes as Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB, which commissions services in Hertfordshire, told HSJ that the scale of increased commissioning required to cope with “unprecedented demand” in the adult ADHD service was “unaffordable”, given its deficit position. 

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Source: HSJ News, 15 August 2024

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