Ryan Park announces new ADHD service

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park announces a new ADHD clinic for children at John Hunter Hospital

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00:00 the ADHD announcement, a new purpose-built facility and service designed to treat young

00:07 people with ADHD. And we know that around one in 20 or so children have this diagnosis

00:14 and what we've got to do is take some pressure off the paediatric waiting lists. Some of

00:19 those people have been, young people have been on that waiting list for years now. We've

00:24 got to do better than that. And what this service is designed to do is take them off

00:28 that paediatric waiting list, get them treated, work in partnership with our GPs and get them

00:34 the treatment, the diagnostics and the health care that not only they need, but their family