LET'S FIX ADHD CARE IN AUSTRALIA

For the more than one million Australians with ADHD, accessing care is too expensive, wait lists are too long, and the healthcare sector’s understanding of the condition is inadequate.

Recently the Australian Parliament formally agreed to hold a Senate inquiry into ADHD assessment and support services in Australia.

This comes off the back of the Greens engaging directly with the ADHD community about what it needs, and what it needs is crystal clear: for ADHD care to be brought fully into Medicare and to have ADHD recognised as a primary disability under the NDIS.

Right now, we have the ...

For the more than one million Australians with ADHD, accessing care is too expensive, wait lists are too long, and the healthcare sector’s understanding of the condition is inadequate.

Recently the Australian Parliament formally agreed to hold a Senate inquiry into ADHD assessment and support services in Australia.

This comes off the back of the Greens engaging directly with the ADHD community about what it needs, and what it needs is crystal clear: for ADHD care to be brought fully into Medicare and to have ADHD recognised as a primary disability under the NDIS.

Right now, we have the unmissable opportunity to make sure the government hears these demands loud and clear by building a campaign of influential health organisations and the community pushing the government for change.

You can help us by sending an email to some of Australia’s peak health advocacy organisations that urges them to publicly join the campaign to fix ADHD care. They can do this by making a submission to the parliamentary inquiry that declares their support for bringing ADHD assessment and support services into Medicare and for the NDIS expanding its primary disability eligibility criteria to include ADHD

This is our moment. If we work together, we can make access to ADHD services an issue our decision-makers can no longer ignore.

Help us build a coaltion for change by using this page to send an email to some of Australia's influential health organisations urging them to publicly join our campaign to fix ADHD care in Australia.

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Help us push for the change we need and and urge some of Australia's influential health bodies to join the campaign to fix ADHD care in Australia!

Follow the prompts below to email the organisations below and encourage them to take part in the parliamentary inquiry into ADHD care in Australia.

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Australian Association of Psychologists
Headspace
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

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I am writing today to ask for your organisation’s support for reform to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) assessment and support services in Australia.

The serious long-term impacts of ADHD are well-established, yet the one million Australians with the condition continue to face significant barriers – particularly cost, wait time and stigma from healthcare providers – to accessing life-changing help.

The ADHD community is clear in what needs to happen to get that access: for Medicare to fully cover ADHD assessment and support services, and for the NDIS to recognise the condition as a primary disability.

As an influential health organisation in Australia, I believe it is incumbent on you to advocate to the government for urgent reform in this space.

I am calling for your organisation to publicly:

- Make a submission to the Senate inquiry into ADHD;
- Declare its support for bringing ADHD assessment and support services into Medicare;
- Declare its support for the NDIS expanding its primary disability eligibility criteria to include 
  ADHD;
- Urge the federal health minister to fix access to ADHD assessment and services, either by 
  writing a letter or meeting with his office;
- Post about your commitment to this campaign on your social media accounts and/or publish 
  a press release on your website.

I am also calling for a number of other organisations to take the above actions. The Albanese Government appears unlikely to improve access to ADHD assessment and support services without pressure from both the community and civil society, and I believe your organisation has a key role to play in the groundswell needed to yield meaningful change.

I hope you can help us urgently address the gap between what the ADHD community needs and what it’s actually receiving.

Thank you for supporting the community on this critical issue.

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