Many ‘Fail To Get Care Home Advice’
More than a third of older people have put a friend or relative into residential care, but nearly half failed to get any advice when they did so, a survey has showed.
Read MoreMore than a third of older people have put a friend or relative into residential care, but nearly half failed to get any advice when they did so, a survey has showed.
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Read MoreA peer and neuroscientist will call on ministers to examine how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed and treated in the UK.
{mosimage}Independent peer Baroness Susan Greenfield will raise the issue in the House of Lords on Wednesday.
Her intervention follows a BBC Panorama programme which highlighted US research suggesting drugs are no better than therapy for ADHD in the long-term. There was also evidence that their use may stunt child growth.
The Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD by the University of Buffalo has been monitoring the treatment of 600 children across the US since the 1990s.
Most of the estimated 500,000 children in Britain with ADHD receive no treatment at all. But of those that do, most – about 55,000 last year – are prescribed stimulants like Ritalin and Concerta.
Baroness Greenfield will call for a wide-ranging inquiry into the huge increase in ADHD diagnoses.
She said: “As well as assessing ADHD drugs themselves, we also need to find out urgently why there has been such a remarkable increase in the numbers of children being diagnosed with ADHD in the last 20 years or so.
“Could the changes to our ways of living be contributing to this increase?
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Read MoreOver £30m is to be spent to help prevent young mental health patients in England being treated on the same wards as adults.
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