Bottisham Medical Practice

If you are considering a private ADHD diagnosis and wish Bottisham Medical Practice to take on the prescribing of any ADHD medication please read this shared care agreement first. Not all private providers would qualify for us providing shared care and only those who meet the requirements within this shared care document will be considered.

Right to Choose ADHD service.

Patients can exercise their ‘right to choose’ and ask to be referred to a private provider who has an existing contract to provide NHS services.  This may be because the wait times are shorter.   Details of right of choose providers can be found at https://adhduk.co.uk/right-to-choose

It is patient’s responsibility to find out appropriate Right to Choose provide who offers ADHD diagnosis and treatment initiation by a Consultant Psychiatrist. We are unable to accept shared care agreement via Right to Choose pathway unless the diagnosis and treatment is confirmed by a Consultant Psychiatrist.

Private ADHD service.

You need to be aware that should you choose to be referred to a private provider, and a diagnosis is made, we will not be in a position to prescribe ADHD medication or arrange monitoring. As a practice, we will not enter into a shared care agreement with a private provider.  Getting the ADHD medication must all be done through the private provider and you should check on the costs of ongoing treatment including prescribing and yearly reviews. 

Private providers each have their own referral process and you should refer to their websites for more information.  We may need information from you in order to complete a referral to a private provider on your behalf.  Failure to respond to a request for information about your referral in a timely manner, will result in your referral request being cancelled.

If a patient who has been diagnosed by a private service wishes to receive their ADHD treatment on the NHS from their GP, they will still need to be referred to an NHS ADHD service for an assessment.  This referral will still need to go through the NHS waiting list. 

If the NHS mental health specialist feels the patient meets NHS criteria to start ADHD medication, a shared care agreement may then be agreed between the NHS specialist and GP.

Shared Care Agreement

Right to Choose

From 1 September 2024, those who turn 75 and those age 75 to 79 will be eligible for a free vaccine to protect them from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

RSV is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including:

• cough
• sore throat
• sneezing
• a runny or blocked nose

It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. There is no specific treatment, and most infections will get better by themselves. Every year thousands of older adults need hospital care for RSV, and some of them will die. RSV can be more severe in people with medical conditions such as heart or lung disease or a weakened immune system.

More information on the RSV Vaccination Programme

Have you recently found out that you're pregnant and would like to have your care with the Rosie Hospital?

The Patients' Participation Group Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 3 April 2025.

All patients were invited to attend.

AGM Meeting Agenda

Chairman's Report

Minutes of the Meeting are now available here.

Bottisham Medical Practice

Patient data from GP medical records kept by GP practices in England is used to improve health, care and services through planning and research, helping to find better treatments and improve patient care. The NHS is introducing an improved way to share this information – called the General Practice Data for Planning and Research data collection.  

You can use this online service to:

• choose if your confidential patient information is used for research and planning
• change or check your current choice

Any choice you make will not impact your individual care.

The latest information on the GPDPR, including what information is obtained and how to opt-out of sharing your information, can be found here.

Use this service to get your NHS number.

Your NHS number is a 10 digit number, like 485 777 3456.

You do not need to know your NHS number to use NHS services, but it can be useful to have it.