What actually helps a child with ADHD in the classroom, what NICE expects of schools, and what good ADHD training for teachers should cover.

ADHD diagnosis in the UK is governed by competence, not job title. Here is what NICE actually says, and how nurses, psychologists and pharmacists fit in.

Prescribing capacity is the bottleneck in most UK ADHD services. Assessments can be done; it is the titration and ongoing medication management that services struggle to staff. That makes this a good route for nurses and pharmacists - provided you do the two parts in the right order. Most people get it the wrong way round.

If your service is moving into autism assessment, these are the two instruments you will be asked about. They are not alternatives to each other, and choosing between them first is usually a mistake.

The methods paragraph almost certainly names DIVA-5, which is built from DSM criteria. And somewhere in the formulation there is probably a sentence saying the patient met "the diagnostic criteria for ADHD" without saying whose.

A UK career guide to becoming an autism assessor: what the role involves, qualifications, ADOS-2 and ADI-R training, working within the MDT, skills, NHS pay bands and career progression, with Global ADHD Network and Service Care Solutions.

That is a fair reflection of the market. ADHD coaching training is not a regulated profession, which means the burden of telling good training from bad sits entirely with the buyer.

The difference was not the guideline. It was who was doing the measuring, and whether a system existed that made the measurement happen. That gap, between the monitoring requirement as written and as recorded - is what this page is about.