In Australia, ADHD is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder in children and adolescents, impacting between 6% and 10% of young people, and up to 6% of adults.

There is increasing demand for GPs to specialise in ADHD to support the diagnosis and management of the condition, helping to alleviate the shortage of psychiatrists.

A leading psychiatrist at the University of Melbourne, Professor Dave Coghill, told Sofie Formica on 4BC Afternoons, “We certainly need to look at more efficient, what I would call models of care, ways of managing ADHD.”

“I think that GPS and nurse practitioners can play a very important part in that.”

“One of the things we’ve been really trying to talk with government about is to get people to see how efficient it would be to improve the training of GPs, to improve the training of psychiatrists, improve the training of nurses,” Professor Coghill continued.

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