Bristol

Do you want to help improve NHS Adult ADHD Services in Bristol, North Somerset, & South Gloucestershire?

The Bristol North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care System (BNSSG ICS) is working with Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Bristol Adults ADHD Support Group to improve the provision of ADHD services and assessment pathway. This involves how Primary Care can be more involved with managing ADHD patients.

We are looking for members of the public who have received an ADHD diagnosis, either through a Right to Choose Provider or paid for a private assessment themselves, to join our ADHD Service User Group. This group will contribute to the development and provide valuable insight into the proposed improvements for the ADHD pathway and future model.

A six-month membership of the Service User Group will involve attending meetings that are:

• monthly
• one hour long
• held virtually on MS Teams
• attended by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP)
  professionals and other service users with a diagnosis who were assessed
  through AWP’s ADHD service

The roles attract a recognition fee of £18 per hour.

To express your interest, write a short statement (up to 250 words) telling them what particular experience you can bring to the project.

The full roll description and contact details are here on BNSSG’s Healthier Together site.

Bristol Adult ADHD Support Group

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 31 October 2024 from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Bristol Central Quaker Meeting House on Champion Square. You do NOT need to email first, nor sign up, nor book a place, just simply show up! The meeting is free.

Dr Dietmar Hank, Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Lead for the NHS Bristol Adult ADHD Service, will be present at this meeting. He will give us a brief update about our local NHS Adult ADHD project and will answer questions about medication, titration, and any other matters relating to ADHD.  

For more details about our monthly meetings please see the Bristol Adult ADHD Support Group page.

Meetings coming up…

Meetings coming up:

The central London Adult ADHD support group is on Tuesday the 5th of April in Costa Coffee Argyll Street (round the corner from Oxford Circus, not too far from the London Palladium). 7 pm to 9 pm. More details here:

Central London ADHD adults’ meeting

The Bristol & South Wales meeting is on Thursday the 14 of April 7 – 9 pm. More details here (if it says ‘March’ come back a bit later when it is updated!):

Bristol & South Wales ADHD adult’s meeting

The Harrow (north-west London) meeting is as per usual 8 – 10 pm on Monday the 11th of April. More details here:

Harrow ADHD adults’ meeting

There is also a new group in Bedford, details to follow. Hopefully, as we get used to this WordPress we’ll be able to give all of these groups their own separate pages and people can update as they go along.