Right to Choose
Non-urgent advice: Your Right To Choose
In many cases you have the legal right to choose where you have your NHS treatment.
The NHS is offering more options to enable you to make choices that best suit your circumstances, giving you greater control of your care, and hopefully better results.
While you have the Right to Choose, it is not as simple as the doctor referring you to a service of your choice. A majority of the time you have to make the inital steps to start the referral yourself.
Access your ADHD & Autism Right to Choose in 5 easy steps:
Non-urgent advice: 1- Speak to a GP
Get in touch with a Doctor if you believe you may show signs of Autism or ADHD. The Doctor will need to know this information for any onward referral.
We can not help you with Right to Choose without having spoken to you first.
Non-urgent advice: 2 - Find your Provider on ADHD UK
The GP will not suggest a provider for you, they can only provide you with the tools to make an informed choice.
Make sure you weigh out all your options on Right to Choose - ADHD UK Please scroll down the page to find the available providers.
It is imperative that you read up on the provider. When looking for a provider that offers Right to Choose, think:
- Will the NHS cover my prescription? Will I have to pay privately for any part of this?
- Does this provider cover my condition?
- How long are the wait times?
- Do I qualify? (Check NHS Exemptions)
Non-urgent advice: 3 - Complete the Private Providers Paperwork
The provider you choose will send you some paperwork to complete your referral. Fill this out before bringing it to the practice.
The surgery cannot help you fill these forms out and cannot give you advice on a providers compatency. You must do this yourself.
If the provider you choose asks for the GP to do the referral first, please let reception know.
Non-urgent advice: 4 - Bring it Back to Ashville
Bring us in the printed copies of any completed forms.
Ashville Medical Practice does not accept emails from non NHS email addresses. We can not print out forms for you.
If you need to provide us with an email address or web address to fill out the remainder of the forms please contact reception with this information.
Non-urgent advice: 5 - We Do The Rest!
Once your forms are handed in at reception or we have been notified of your referral to your provider we will complete the forms from our side.
We will send the referral for you if we have been advised by the provider to do so.
Once the referral has been sent, we will have no contol over your waiting times or appointments within that service.
Urgent advice: Remember:
- We MUST see you prior to a Right to Choose referral being made.
- You MUST do your own research.
- We will NOT choose or recommend a provider for you.
- Reception will NOT be able to fill out the patient forms on your behalf.
- Reception will NOT print any paper forms for you.
- We do NOT have control over waiting times with private providers.
Right to Choose exists to take pressure off NHS waiting lists and Primary Care.
Please be understanding and respectful of our staff and the rules in place surrounding this.
Page created: 07 August 2025