The NHS is not coping with ADHD. The numbers of people queueing up to be diagnosed surged during and after the Covid pandemic, and have become so large that waiting times stretch to years. NHS England knows it has a problem: in March it announced it is launching a taskforce to improve care. In February, six leading psychiatric experts from trusts around the country warned of a crisis.
Yet ADHD, is not a newly discovered condition, for all that it is now a TikTok sensation. Over the past 200 years, medics have noted children who are inattentive and over-excitable and pondered what could be done to help them.
