The battle for ADHD diagnoses in New Zealand

Despite at least 300,000 kiwis grappling with ADHD, fewer than 20% are correctly diagnosed and treated.

Medical appointments for ADHD diagnosis are expensive and hard to come by, and patients say they’re desperate for the care and medication they badly need.

But in a move only the medical industry could possibly justify, the 86 year old GP who literally wrote the book on ADHD diagnosis for the NZ government has been suspended for three years and fined $175,000.

As Medical Director Dr. Luke Bradford rightly says in the introduction… “the current system for managing ADHD is broken”.